predeceaseverb [ T ]
uk/ˌpriː.dɪˈsiːs/us/ˌpriː.diːˈsiːs/formal or specializedto die before someone else:
Her husband predeceased her by five years.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- in extremis
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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