predecease
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːs
Noun
predecease (plural predeceases)
- The death of one person or thing before another.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- "PRIVATE: for the hands of G. J. Utterson ALONE, and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,"
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Translations
anterior death
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Verb
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- (transitive) To die sooner than.
- Husbands usually predecease their wives.
- Shakespeare
- If children predecease progenitors.
Antonyms
Translations
to die sooner than
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