Usually means: To die before someone else.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word predecease:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. predecease: Merriam-Webster
  2. predecease: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. predecease: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. predecease: Collins English Dictionary
  5. predecease: Vocabulary.com
  6. predecease: Wordnik
  7. predecease: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. predecease: Wiktionary
  9. predecease: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. predecease: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. predecease: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. predecease: Dictionary.com
  13. predecease (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Predecease: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. predecease: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. predecease: Rhymezone
  17. Predecease: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. predecease: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. predecease: FreeDictionary.org
  20. predecease: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. predecease: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. predecease: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. predecease: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. predecease: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The death of one person or thing before another.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To die sooner than.

Similar:
predeceaser, preceder, antecessor, antecedence, predecessor, precessor, pred, antecessour, predecessour, prædecessor, more...

Opposite:
succeed, follow, come after

Types:
death, expiration, passing, demise, end, more...
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Similar:
predeceaser, preceder, antecessor, antecedence, predecessor, precessor, pred, antecessour, predecessour, prædecessor, more...

Opposite:
succeed, follow, come after

Types:
death, expiration, passing, demise, end, more...



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