predecease

pre- +‎ decease

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɹiːdəˈsiːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

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predecease (plural predeceases)

1. The death of one person or thing before another.
   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Remarkable Incident of Doctor Lanyon”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 59–60:

     ‘Private: for the hands of J. G. Utterson alone and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,’ so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer to behold the contents.

predecease (third-person singular simple present predeceases, present participle predeceasing, simple past and past participle predeceased)

1. (transitive) To die sooner than.

   Husbands usually predecease their wives.

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)‎, London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

     If children prædeceaſe progenitours, / VVe are their ofſpring and they none of ours.

• (antonym(s) of “die sooner than”): outlive, postdecease, survive