deceased

adjective

they removed the body of the deceased ambassador:

dead, expired, departed, gone, no more, passed on, passed away;

late, lost, lamented;

perished, fallen, slain, slaughtered, killed, murdered;

lifeless, not breathing, having breathed one's last, defunct, extinct, inanimate, insentient, insensate, inert;

informal (as) dead as a doornail, six feet under, pushing up daisies, under the sod;

euphemistic with God, asleep, at peace;

rare demised, exanimate.