at peace
Definition
› a gentle way of saying that someone is dead: Now she is at peace and her suffering is over.Death and dying
(Definition of at peace from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be fading away/fast idiom
- cot death noun
- crib death noun
- deceased adjective
- departed adjective
- departed noun
- doornail noun
- drop verb (FALL)
- drowning noun
- gone adjective (LEFT)
- in extremis adverb
- kick the bucket idiom
- loss noun
- predecease verb
- road kill noun
- shuffle off this mortal coil idiom
- stone-dead adjective
- strike sb down phrasal verb
- the Grim Reaper noun
- those whom the gods love die young idiom
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