decease vs modification
modification vs deceasedecease and modification both are nouns.
decease is a verb but modification is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| decease | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| modification | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
modification is a hypernym of
decease; that is, modification is a
word with a broader meaning than decease:
- decease: the event of dying or departure from life
- modification: an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
Other hypernyms of decease include
alteration, change.
| decease (noun) | modification (noun) |
|---|---|
| the event of dying or departure from life | the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) |
| slightly modified copy; not an exact copy | |
| an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | |
| the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase |
| decease (verb) | modification (verb) |
|---|---|
| pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life |
Words related to "decease"
- Crucifixion
- Crucifixion of Jesus
- abort
- alteration
- asphyxiate
- break
- break down
- buy it
- buy the farm
- cash in one's chips
- change
- change state
- choke
- conk
- conk out
- croak
- death
- decedent
- departure
- die
- drop dead
- drown
- exit
- expiration
- expire
- expiry
- fail
- fall
- famish
- fatality
- give out
- give way
- give-up the ghost
- go
- go bad
- going
- human death
- kick the bucket
- kill
- leave
- leave behind
- loss
- martyrdom
- megadeath
- modification
- pass
- pass away
- passing
- perish
- pip out
- pop off
- predecease
- release
- snuff it
- starve
- stifle
- succumb
- suffocate
- turn
- wrongful death
- yield
Words related to "modification"
- acceleration
- accommodation
- adaptation
- adjustment
- alteration
- apposition
- avulsion
- birth
- break
- breakup
- change
- chromosomal mutation
- conversion
- copy
- damage
- death
- decease
- deceleration
- decrease
- deformation
- destabilization
- detachment
- development
- drop-off
- easing
- expiry
- fluctuation
- genetic mutation
- grammatical relation
- happening
- harm
- impairment
- increase
- laxation
- lessening
- limiting
- loosening
- loss of consciousness
- moderation
- modify
- mutation
- nascence
- nascency
- nativity
- natural event
- occurrence
- occurrent
- play
- qualifying
- relief
- restrictiveness
- retardation
- revolution
- scintillation
- separation
- sex change
- shift
- shimmer
- slowing
- sparkling
- sublimation
- surprise
- tightening
- transformation
- transition
- transmutation
- tune
- twinkle
- vagary
- variation
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