Associations to the word «Predecease»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

PREDECEASE, verb. Die before; die earlier than; "She predeceased her husband".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope