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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decease.

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Examples

  • This is a new flight scare with a sick passenger and just whats making this guy sick this needs to be a reason to worry heres a way to do harm by transporting infected people with deadly deceases into our country how can we really be safe.

    White House: President notified of new flight scare 2009

  • You know, how Spain of that era sent troops to the New World, plundered the land of gold, destroyed the Aztek and Myan people in wars and planted deceases. 50,000 tons of gold was sent back to decorate Spanish churches, finance the military, and decades of decadent life.

    Financial Terrorism 2010

  • Every lover fades away or violently deceases — cancer, car crash, overdose, never-ending coma, epileptic fit on Sunday, heart attack in Halfords, he fell off a block of flats, she jumped under a train — I live here alone.

    Bone Dust Disco Penny Goring 2010

  • This is a Republican sending in a statement listing Ted Kennedy's accomplishment like the "Orphan Drug Act" which provided tax credits for encouraging the development of medicines for rare deceases.

    CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2009 2009

  • Tropical deceases that were wiped out in Britain in the 1950s like TB are making a comeback.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • That gives way to foot infections, foot rot, but also a lot of these tropical parasite deceases, leishmaniasis.

    CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2008 2008

  • I have a friend adopted from Haiti and I can tell you that these children does not have it as nice as american children. .alot of them starve to death or die from deceases.

    Angelina Jolie Uncensored!: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008

  • And to quote my predecessor, which is what we call the man -- or woman -- who pre-deceases you in the White House: We feel your pain.

    Charlie Reina: Bush Does Berlin (in My Dreams) 2008

  • But also a lot of these tropical parasite deceases, lice manaises -- that's the tropical flesh eating decease, malaria was an ever-present threat.

    CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2008 2008

  • The Spaniards brought deceases unknown to the American immune system, the horse, gunpowder and Catholicism.

    OpEdNews - Diary: cliff567 on Hugo Chavez 2006

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