predecease
verbEtymology From pre- + decease.
1
To die sooner than.
- Husbands usually predecease their wives.
- Frederick, Prince of Wales, predeceased his father and never became king.
3 more examples
- If children prædeceaſe progenitours, / VVe are their ofſpring and they none of ours.1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature M2, verso:
- 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.1883, “The Countess of Albany, Charles Edward, and Alfieri”, in The Monograph, a Serial Collection of Indexed Essays, number II, Bangor, Me.: Q. P. Index, →OCLC, note 4, page 43:
- Two brothers and a sister predeceased him. Bergoglio is survived by a sister, María Elena.2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
- Antonyms
- outlive, postdecease, survive
- Derived terms
- predeceaser