kick the bucket

The phrase “kick the bucket” has 4 syllables: kick the buck-et

It's pronounced as /kɪk ðə ˈbʌkɪt/


What is synonym and antonym for kick the bucket?

In the thesaurus, “kick the bucket” has 39 synonyms and 11 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for kick the bucket along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for kick the bucket

  • bite the dust
  • buy it
  • buy the farm
  • cease living
  • check out
  • consume
  • croak
  • decease
  • demise
  • depart
  • die
  • disappear
  • drop
  • dry up
  • end
  • exit
  • expire
  • fade
  • fail
  • fall
  • flatline
  • give up the ghost
  • go
  • go belly up
  • go to the wall
  • go west
  • kick in
  • kick off
  • part
  • pass away
  • pass on
  • peg out
  • perish
  • pop off
  • predecease
  • shove off
  • snuff it
  • step out
  • succumb

Antonyms for kick the bucket

  • be
  • breathe
  • come to
  • exist
  • flourish
  • linger
  • live
  • prosper
  • revive
  • subsist
  • thrive

Meanings of kick the bucket

  • verb
    1. To die.
    2. Of a machine, to break down such that it cannot be repaired.

Example Sentences

  • Many people have a bucket list of things they want to do before they kick the bucket.
  • I hope to achieve my dreams before I kick the bucket.
  • He always joked that he would kick the bucket while skydiving, but he's still here.
  • He wants to travel the world before he kick the bucket.
  • He didn't want to kick the bucket before seeing his daughter get married.

On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to kick the bucket, such as: be, bite the dust, breathe, buy it, buy the farm, cease living, check out.

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Related Words

decease

  • annihilation
  • assassination
  • bite the dust
  • buy a one-way ticket
  • buy it
  • buy the farm
  • buying the farm
  • call off all bets
  • casualty
  • cease
  • check out
  • consume
  • cool off
  • croak
  • curtains
  • death
  • deep-six
  • defunction
  • demise
  • depart
  • departure
  • destruction
  • die
  • disappear
  • dissolution
  • doom
  • drop
  • dry up
  • dying
  • end
  • ending
  • execution
  • exit
  • expiration
  • expire
  • expiry
  • extermination
  • fade
  • fail
  • fall
  • fatality
  • fate
  • flatline
  • give up the ghost
  • go
  • grave
  • great divide
  • grim reaper
  • kick in
  • kick off
  • kick the bucket
  • killing
  • martyrdom
  • massacre
  • part
  • pass
  • pass away
  • pass on
  • pass over
  • passage
  • passing
  • passing away
  • passing over
  • peg out
  • perish
  • pop off
  • predecease
  • quietus
  • release
  • ruin
  • self-destruction
  • self-murder
  • self-slaughter
  • silence
  • slaughter
  • sleep
  • snuff it
  • step out
  • succumb
  • suicide
  • taps
  • the end

fall

  • abasement
  • abate
  • abatement
  • alleviate
  • angle
  • arrive
  • back down
  • backslide
  • basin
  • be casualty
  • be destroyed
  • be killed
  • be lost
  • be precipitated
  • be taken
  • become
  • befall
  • belly flop
  • bend
  • bite the dust
  • bomb
  • bottom
  • bow
  • bow out
  • breach
  • break
  • break down
  • break the law
  • breakdown
  • breakup
  • buckle
  • burnout
  • buy it
  • buy the farm
  • cant
  • capitulate
  • capitulation
  • cascade
  • cataract
  • cave in
  • chance
  • check out
  • chute
  • cock
  • collapse
  • come about
  • come to pass
  • comedown
  • compress
  • concede
  • condense
  • constrict
  • consume
  • contract
  • crash
  • crater
  • croak
  • crumbling
  • crumple
  • curtailment
  • cut
  • cutback
  • dark age
  • de-escalate
  • de-escalation
  • death
  • debasement
  • decadence
  • decay
  • decease
  • decimation
  • declension
  • declination
  • decline
  • declivity
  • decomposition
  • decrease
  • decrement
  • deduction
  • defeat
  • defer to
  • deflate
  • deflation
  • degeneracy
  • degeneration
  • degradation
  • demise
  • demolishment
  • demolition
  • dent
  • depart
  • depletion
  • depreciate
  • depreciation
  • depression
  • descend
  • descent
  • desolation
  • destruction
  • deterioration
  • devolution
  • die
  • diminish
  • diminishment
  • diminution
  • dip
  • disappear
  • disappointment
  • disaster
  • disgrace
  • disintegration
  • dissolution
  • dive
  • down
  • downfall
  • downgrade
  • downhill
  • downslide
  • downtrend
  • downturn
  • downward slope
  • drag
  • droop
  • drop
  • drop down
  • drop-off
  • dry up
  • dwindle
  • dwindling
  • ease
  • eat dirt
  • ebb
  • eclipse
  • end
  • err
  • evaporate
  • exit
  • expire
  • fade
  • fail
  • failure
  • fall away
  • fall from grace
  • fall to pieces
  • falling-off
  • falloff
  • falter
  • flag
  • flameout
  • flatline
  • flop
  • flume
  • flump
  • flunk
  • fold
  • fold up
  • forfeit
  • founder
  • free-fall
  • give in
  • give out
  • give up
  • give up the ghost
  • give way
  • go
  • go down
  • go under
  • gravitate
  • hand over
  • hang
  • hanging
  • havoc
  • header
  • heel
  • hit the dirt
  • hollow
  • humiliation
  • incline
  • infringe
  • keel
  • keel over
  • kick in
  • kick off
  • kick the bucket
  • knuckle under
  • land
  • lapse
  • lean
  • lessen
  • lessening
  • let up
  • lie down
  • list
  • lose
  • loss
  • lower
  • lowering
  • meltdown
  • mess up
  • miss
  • misstep
  • moderate
  • nadir
  • nose-dive
  • nosedive
  • obey
  • occur
  • offend
  • pall
  • part
  • pass away
  • pass into enemy hands
  • peg out
  • perish
  • phase down
  • pitch
  • plonk
  • plop
  • plummet
  • plummeting
  • plunge
  • plunk
  • pop off
  • pratfall
  • precipitate
  • predecease
  • recede
  • recession
  • recline
  • reduction
  • regress
  • relapse
  • relax
  • relent
  • relinquish
  • remit
  • resign
  • resignation
  • retreat
  • retrenchment
  • reversal
  • rotting
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • sag
  • setback
  • settle
  • shoot
  • shortening
  • shrink
  • shrinkage
  • shute
  • sin
  • sink
  • sinking
  • skid
  • slacken
  • slant
  • slide
  • slip
  • slope
  • slump
  • snuff it
  • spill
  • spin
  • spoiling
  • step out
  • step-down
  • stray
  • strike out
  • stumble
  • submit
  • subside
  • subtraction
  • succumb
  • sunset
  • surrender
  • take a header
  • take place
  • take the count
  • tank
  • taper
  • taper off
  • throw
  • tilt
  • tip
  • tip over
  • topple
  • totter
  • trail
  • transgress
  • trespass
  • trip
  • tumble
  • undoing
  • vanish
  • violate
  • wander
  • wane
  • wash out
  • waterfall
  • weaken
  • white water
  • wipe out
  • yield

kick in

  • afford
  • ante up
  • award
  • bestow
  • bite the dust
  • buy it
  • buy the farm
  • check out
  • chip in
  • commit
  • confer
  • consume
  • contribute
  • croak
  • decease
  • demise
  • depart
  • die
  • disappear
  • dish out
  • dole out
  • donate
  • drop
  • dry up
  • end
  • endow
  • exit
  • expire
  • fade
  • fail
  • fall
  • flatline
  • fork over
  • furnish
  • give
  • give up the ghost
  • go
  • hand out
  • hand over
  • kick off
  • kick the bucket
  • part
  • pass away
  • peg out
  • perish
  • pitch in
  • pony up
  • pop off
  • predecease
  • present
  • provide
  • snuff it
  • step out
  • succumb

kick off

  • acquaint
  • admit
  • adopt
  • advance
  • advent
  • air
  • alpha
  • announce
  • appear
  • appearance
  • arise
  • arrival
  • assume
  • baseline
  • be born
  • become involved in
  • begin
  • begin business
  • beginning
  • birth
  • bite the dust
  • bow
  • break in
  • break the ice
  • break the seal
  • bring forward
  • bring in
  • bring out
  • bring up
  • broach
  • bud
  • buy it
  • buy the farm
  • carry on
  • cease living
  • check out
  • childhood
  • come forth
  • come into being
  • come into existence
  • come out
  • come out with
  • come up with
  • commence
  • commencement
  • commission
  • consume
  • continue
  • convene
  • cradle
  • create
  • creation
  • croak
  • crop up
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • day one
  • debut
  • decease
  • dedicate
  • demise
  • depart
  • derive from
  • die
  • disappear
  • do the honors
  • drawing board
  • dream up
  • drop
  • dry up
  • emanate
  • embark
  • embark on
  • embark upon
  • embrace
  • emerge
  • emergence
  • end
  • engage in
  • enter
  • enter upon
  • espouse
  • establish
  • exit
  • expire
  • fade
  • fail
  • fall
  • familiarize
  • father
  • first base
  • fix up
  • flatline
  • follow through
  • found
  • founding
  • fountain
  • fountainhead
  • generate
  • genesis
  • germ
  • germinate
  • get ball rolling
  • get cracking
  • get feet wet
  • get going
  • get off
  • get show on road
  • get things rolling
  • get to
  • get under way
  • get-go
  • get-together
  • git-go
  • give introduction
  • give up the ghost
  • go
  • go on
  • ground zero
  • grow out of
  • happen
  • harbinger
  • herald
  • hit the ground running
  • inaugurate
  • inauguration
  • inception
  • incipience
  • incipiency
  • induct
  • infancy
  • initiate
  • initiation
  • innovate
  • install
  • instate
  • instigate
  • institute
  • institution
  • intro
  • introduce
  • invent
  • invest
  • issue forth
  • jump
  • jump into
  • kick in
  • kick the bucket
  • knock down
  • launch
  • lead into
  • lead off
  • make tick
  • make up
  • meet
  • moot
  • morning
  • nascence
  • nascency
  • occur
  • offer
  • onset
  • open
  • open up
  • opening
  • ordain
  • organize
  • origin
  • originate
  • origination
  • outset
  • part
  • pass away
  • pass on
  • pave the way
  • peg out
  • perish
  • pick up
  • pioneer
  • plan
  • pop off
  • precede
  • predecease
  • preface
  • present
  • proceed
  • proceed from
  • propose
  • push up daisies
  • put forward
  • raise the curtain
  • recommence
  • recommend
  • renew
  • reopen
  • restart
  • result from
  • resume
  • ring in
  • rise
  • root
  • sail
  • seedbed
  • send off
  • set
  • set about
  • set forth
  • set going
  • set in motion
  • set to
  • set up
  • set up shop
  • sit
  • snuff it
  • source
  • spawn
  • spring
  • spring with
  • sprout
  • square one
  • start
  • start ball rolling
  • start the ball rolling
  • stem from
  • step out
  • submit
  • succumb
  • suggest
  • tackle
  • take in
  • take off
  • take on
  • take up
  • tear into
  • tee off
  • threshold
  • trigger
  • undertake
  • unveil
  • usher
  • usher in
  • ventilate
  • well
  • wellspring
  • youth

kickoff

  • adopt
  • advent
  • alpha
  • appearance
  • arrival
  • baseline
  • begin
  • beginning
  • birth
  • bite the dust
  • buy it
  • buy the farm
  • check out
  • childhood
  • commence
  • commencement
  • consume
  • cradle
  • create
  • creation
  • croak
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • day one
  • debut
  • decease
  • demise
  • depart
  • die
  • disappear
  • drawing board
  • drop
  • dry up
  • embrace
  • emergence
  • end
  • establish
  • exit
  • expire
  • fade
  • fail
  • fall
  • father
  • first
  • first base
  • flatline
  • found
  • founding
  • fountain
  • fountainhead
  • generate
  • genesis
  • germ
  • get going
  • get off
  • get to
  • get-go
  • git-go
  • give up the ghost
  • go
  • ground zero
  • inaugurate
  • inauguration
  • inception
  • incipience
  • incipiency
  • infancy
  • initial
  • initiate
  • initiation
  • innovate
  • institute
  • institution
  • invent
  • kick in
  • kick the bucket
  • launch
  • lead off
  • morning
  • nascence
  • nascency
  • onset
  • open
  • opening
  • organize
  • origin
  • originate
  • origination
  • outset
  • part
  • pass away
  • peg out
  • perish
  • pioneer
  • pop off
  • predecease
  • root
  • seedbed
  • set about
  • set up
  • snuff it
  • source
  • spawn
  • spring
  • square one
  • start
  • starting
  • step out
  • succumb
  • take on
  • take up
  • threshold
  • well
  • wellspring
  • youth

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