kick the bucket

Speech parts

1. kick the bucket - Verb

2. kick the bucket - Phrase

Meaning

pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

pass die exit expire perish choke decease go pass away croak buy the farm conk pop off snuff it give-up the ghost
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Antonyms

last live exist whelp stye survive
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Hypernyms

turn change state

Hyponyms

fall suffocate yield drown starve abort

Related terms

bucket list

Examples

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all. Lara St. John

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point. Maggie Smith

She died from cancer Source: Internet

The children perished in the fire Source: Internet

The patient went peacefully Source: Internet

The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102 Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

kick the bucket

Close letter words and terms

kick starter kick the ball in the long grass kick the beam kick the can kick the can down the road kick the habit