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PREDECEASE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they predecease ... he / she / it predeceases
Past simple: predeceased
Past participle: predeceased
-ing form: predeceasing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Die before; die earlier than
Example:
She predeceased her husband
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "predecease" is one way to...):
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)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
