病びょう死し

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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

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

death from illness; dying of disease

Neutral term for death caused by illness or disease, as opposed to accidental death or death from other causes. Commonly used in news, medical, and official contexts.

彼かれは長ながい闘とう病びょうの末すえ、病びょう死しした。
He died of illness after a long battle with the disease.
死し因いんは病びょう死しと判はん断だんされた。
The cause of death was determined to be natural causes (illness).

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉が病びょう死しするfor someone to die of illness
その作さっ家かは五ご十じゅう代だいで病びょう死しした。
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
彼かれは若わかくして父ちちを病びょう死しで亡なくした。
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
検けん死しの結けっ果か、病びょう死しと診しん断だんされた。
The autopsy determined that the cause of death was illness.

Kanji

病ill, sick
死death, die

Related words

死し亡ぼうN3
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.
死し去きょN1
死去 is a polite, general word for someone's passing regardless of cause, whereas 病死 explicitly identifies illness as the cause.
病びょう没ぼつ
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

事じ故こ死し
事故死 means death caused by an accident, contrasting directly with 病死, which means death caused by illness.
自じ殺さつN3
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

事じ故こ死し
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.
急きゅう死し
病死 means death from illness generally (which may be gradual), while 急死 stresses the suddenness of the death, whatever the cause.
戦せん死しN1
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

戦せん病びょう死し
death from illness at the front; dying of disease while on active service
生しょう老ろう病びょう死し
birth, aging, sickness, and death

Built from

病びょう+死し

Etymology

Compound of 病 (びょう, 'illness') and 死 (し, 'death').