the deceased

noun

formal

: a dead person or dead people

a relative of the deceased

Three of the deceased are being buried today.

Examples of the deceased in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Because their travel coincides with the holiday, it is believed the butterflies hold the souls of the deceased returning home. — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Two new clades of the virus, SHAV-EU1 and SHAV-EU2, were detected earlier this year, and genetic testing revealed traces of the first type in the deceased person’s cerebrospinal fluid, urine and saliva, among other samples. — Sahas Mehra, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026

Second, our model shows that, on average, the deceased relatives died 25 years ago. — Ashton Verdery, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026

The Scottsdale Police Department has identified the deceased as Brazilian national Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, who had traveled to the US for an event at Arizona State University. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for the deceased

• beast
• ceased
• creased
• east
• feast
• fleeced
• geest
• greased
• leased
• least
• pieced
• priest