PREDECEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predecease mean? 

• PREDECEASE (verb)
  The verb PREDECEASE has 1 sense:

1. die before; die earlier than

  Familiarity information: PREDECEASE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDECEASE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they predecease    ... he / she / it predeceases   
Past simple: predeceased   
Past participle: predeceased   
-ing form: predeceasing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Die before; die earlier than

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

She predeceased her husband

Hypernyms (to "predecease" 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 (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

“PRIVATE: for the hands of G. J. Utterson ALONE, and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,” so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

For by her predeceasing her daughter the latter would have come into possession of the property, and, even had she only survived her mother by five minutes, her property would, in case there were no will—and a will was a practical impossibility in such a case—have been treated at her decease as under intestacy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)