Word Study
predecease
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb predecease has 1 sense
- predecease(v = verb.change) Array - die before; die earlier than; "She predeceased her husband" is one way to buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
predecease, v. t.
To die sooner than. Shak. [1913 Webster]
predecease, n.
The death of one person or thing before another. Brougham. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
predecease, v. & n.
--v.tr. die earlier than (another person).
--n. a death preceding that of another.
--v.tr. die earlier than (another person).
--n. a death preceding that of another.
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