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病死 (byoushi) Japanese meaning: death from illness | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Conjugation 病死する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 病びょう 死し する 病びょう 死し しない Polite 病びょう 死し します 病びょう 死し しません Past polite 病びょう 死し しました 病びょう 死し しませんでした Past 病びょう 死し した 病びょう 死し しなかった Te-form 病びょう 死し して 病びょう 死し しないで Desire 病びょう 死し したい 病びょう 死し したくない Potential 病びょう 死し できる 病びょう 死し できない Passive 病びょう 死し される 病びょう 死し されない Causative 病びょう 死し させる 病びょう 死し させない Causative passive 病びょう 死し させられる 病びょう 死し させられない Volitional 病びょう 死し しよう Polite volitional 病びょう 死し しましょう Imperative 病びょう 死し しろ 病びょう 死し するな Conditional 病びょう 死し すれば 病びょう 死し しなければ Tara conditional 病びょう 死し したら 病びょう 死し しなかったら
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He died of illness after a long battle with the disease.
The cause of death was determined to be natural causes (illness).
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 が 病びょう 死し する for someone to die of illness
The writer died of illness in his fifties.
〈 人ひと 〉 を 病びょう 死し で 亡な くす to lose someone to illness
He lost his father to illness at a young age.
病びょう 死し と 診しん 断だん される to be diagnosed/certified as death from illness
The autopsy determined that the cause of death was illness.
Related words 死亡 is the general, cause-neutral term for death used in official documents, while 病死 specifies that the death was caused by illness.
死去 is a polite, general word for someone's passing regardless of cause, whereas 病死 explicitly identifies illness as the cause.
病没 is a more literary or formal word for dying of illness, often used for historical or notable figures, while 病死 is the everyday neutral term.
Opposites 事故死 means death caused by an accident, contrasting directly with 病死, which means death caused by illness.
自殺 refers to death by one's own hand, standing in contrast to 病死, which is death from natural illness.
Don't confuse with 病死 is death from illness, while 事故死 is death from an accident; both are common ~死 compounds in news reports but describe different causes.
病死 means death from illness generally (which may be gradual), while 急死 stresses the suddenness of the death, whatever the cause.
戦死 means dying in combat, while 病死 means dying of illness; both share the same '死' structure but differ in cause of death.
Word family death from illness at the front; dying of disease while on active service
birth, aging, sickness, and death
Etymology Compound of 病 (びょう, 'illness') and 死 (し, 'death').
