"pass away" | Definition and Related Words

Verb

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life (synset 200359085)
"She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

is a type of: change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
subtypes:
- abort - cease development, die, and be aborted
- asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- buy it, pip out - be killed or die
- drown - die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
- predecease - die before; die earlier than
- famish, starve - die of food deprivation
- fall - die, as in battle or in a hunt
- succumb, yield - be fatally overwhelmed
same as: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, perish, pop off, snuff it
verb group:
- break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad - stop operating or functioning
- die - suffer or face the pain of death
Go out of existence (synset 200352230)
"She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away"

is a type of: cease, end, finish, stop, terminate - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical