predecease
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˌpɹiːdəˈsiːs/
- Rhymes: -iːs
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editpredecease (plural predeceases)
- The death of one person or thing before another.
- 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Remarkable Incident of Doctor Lanyon”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 59–60:
- ‘Private: for the hands of J. G. Utterson alone and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,’ so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer to behold the contents.
Translations
editanterior death
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Verb
editpredecease (third-person singular simple present predeceases, present participle predeceasing, simple past and past participle predeceased)
- (transitive) To die sooner than.
- Husbands usually predecease their wives.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
- If children prædeceaſe progenitours, / VVe are their ofſpring and they none of ours.
Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “die sooner than”): outlive, postdecease, survive
Translations
editto die sooner than
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