What does predecease mean?
Predecease means The death of one person or thing before another..
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/ˌpɹiːdəˈsiːs/ · noun
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.
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 death of cardinal York extinguished the descendants of James II., and as he had no brother but Charles II., who prædeceased him without legitimate issue, the succession the opened to the descendants of his sister, the princess Henrietta Maria, wife of Phillippe, duke of Orleans.
Two brothers and a sister predeceased him. Bergoglio is survived by a sister, María Elena.
Use predecease when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Predecease means The death of one person or thing before another..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include outlive, postdecease, survive.
‘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.
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