predecease

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The death of one person or thing before another.

   • ‘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.
2. 2

   To die sooner than.

   • Husbands usually predecease their wives.
   • Frederick, Prince of Wales, predeceased his father and never became king.
   • If children prædeceaſe progenitours, / VVe are their ofſpring and they none of ours.

The neighborhood

• antonymoutliveantonym(s) of “die sooner than”
• antonympostdeceaseantonym(s) of “die sooner than”
• antonymsurviveantonym(s) of “die sooner than”