急きゅう死し

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急死する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

Refers to an unexpected, abrupt death, often from natural causes like a heart attack. Used as both a noun and a suru-verb (急死する).

〈人ひと〉が急きゅう死しするfor someone to die suddenly
彼かれは昨日きのう、心しん臓ぞう発ほっ作さで急きゅう死しした。
He died suddenly yesterday from a heart attack.
〈事こと〉で急きゅう死しするto die suddenly due to (a cause)
社しゃ長ちょうは過か労ろうで急きゅう死ししたと報ほうじられた。
It was reported that the company president died suddenly from overwork.
〈人ひと〉の急きゅう死しsomeone's sudden death (as a noun phrase)
父ちちの急きゅう死しは家か族ぞくにとって大おおきな衝しょう撃げきだった。
My father's sudden death was a great shock to the family.

突とつ然ぜん死し
突然死 is the clinical/medical term for sudden death, while 急死 is the everyday word used in news and conversation.
頓とん死し
頓死 is an old-fashioned or literary word for sudden death, whereas 急死 is the common modern term.
急きゅう逝せい
急死 is the common, everyday word for a sudden death, while 急逝 is a more formal, literary term typically used in obituaries.

急きゅう逝せいpolite 丁寧語
急逝 is a more formal, softer way of announcing someone's sudden death than the blunt, factual 急死.

病びょう死しN1
病死 means death from illness generally (which may be gradual), while 急死 stresses the suddenness of the death, whatever the cause.
急きゅう病びょうN1
急病 means a sudden illness that may or may not be fatal, while 急死 means sudden death itself.

Compound of 急 (sudden) and 死 (death). The reading is on'yomi, as expected for a Sino-Japanese compound.