: no longer living especially : recently dead —used of persons Both of his parents are deceased. deceased relatives.

Is deceased or has deceased?

No. “Deceased” is an adjective; “decease” is not generally used as a verb. You might find it in dictionaries, but OED, for example, has no examples later than the eighteenth century (although it does not mark it as obsolete or archaic). Use “died” instead.

How do you describe someone who has passed away?

Deceased. Departed, gone, lost, slipped away.

No longer living; dead. Deceased is defined as a dead person. An example of deceased is someone who has been murdered.