| 单词 | predecease |
| 释义 | predecease (once / 63889 pages) v To predecease someone is to die before they do. If, tragically, your goldfish dies one week and your gerbil passes away the following week, you can say the fish predeceases the gerbil. While you can use this verb to talk about any person or animal's death — or even the death of your favorite houseplants — it's most common to describe one family member predeceasing another. It's devastating when a child predeceases his or her parents, or when one twin predeceases the other. This sixteenth century word uses the "before" prefix pre- and decease, from the Latin decessus, or "death." WORD FAMILYpredecease: predeceased, predeceases, predeceasing+/decease: deceased, deceases, deceasing, decedent, predecease/decedent: decedents USAGE EXAMPLESHe was predeceased by two children from his first marriage. Washington Post(Dec 17, 2016) His first wife, Lenore, and his second, Selma, predeceased him. Washington Post(Sep 23, 2016) Gerety was predeceased by eight brothers and survived by numerous nieces and nephews. Reuters(Sep 21, 2016) v die before; die earlier than She predeceased her husband Hyper buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life |
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