PASSED AWAY Synonyms: 92 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in gone

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verb

past tense of pass away

as in died

to stop living the old woman passed away quietly

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All but the first in the series were directed by Michael Apted, who passed away in 2021. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026 His wife of more than 60 years, Betty Green, passed away in 2019. — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026 His family confirmed the actor passed away on October 21 from natural causes. — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026 The issue is personal after his sister, Amy, passed away three years ago, at the age of 48, for reasons related to obesity and diabetes. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026 Paul McCartney met Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on September 8, 2022, several times throughout his life, beginning with the queen’s first handshake with the Beatles in 1963. — Monica Coviello, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026 The Hype House alum also feels a special connection to his fans who’ve lost parents, as his father died of kidney cancer when Warren was just 9 years old and his mother passed away in 2021. — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2026 The reveal comes a little more than a month after the famed costume designer passed away at 87. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026 In a news conference Friday, the leader of FIEL Houston, Cesar Espinosa, said the daughter had identified the man in the photo as his father, José Hector Jimenez Mendoza, who passed away almost a decade ago while trying to enter the United States. — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for passed away

Adjective

An America lost to time, remembered in photos The mall’s future is now determined — and its past reveals a version of America perhaps long gone.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2026
Suddenly, photos, videos, or important documents are just… gone.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026

Definition of gone

Verb

Three people died at the scene and a fourth man later died in hospital, regional military administration head Oleksandr Hanzha reported, while over a dozen people were injured.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
The crash came three weeks after 17 people died in an accident along the same highway linking the capital, Nairobi, with the coastal city of Mombasa.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of died

Adjective

Later in the day, a California Highway Patrol helicopter located a deceased climber on that route, but a storm system soon moved into the area, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Professor Frink reanimates his formerly deceased father after winning the Nobel Prize, but the elder Frink, not content with his current body, steals parts and organs from other humans.

— Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of deceased

Verb

In the postwar decades, humans seized ecosystems at breakneck speed—forests were felled, prairies plowed, wetlands drained.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of fell

Adjective

While Kyiv and Moscow have maintained limited contact to organize prisoner exchanges and the return of fallen soldiers, previous talks have made no progress on the security arrangements needed to sustain a peace deal.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
When the men return from Sheriffmuir with the bodies of their fallen comrades, Colum has to grapple with his role in their deaths.

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of fallen

Verb

Essential California checked out the trials, tested airport counters, walked through the terminal’s new gates and conversed with excited passengers looking forward to their next flight out of Burbank.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
Staff described students as often seeming physically and mentally worn down and checked out.

— Crystal Cederna, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026

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