• IPA: /ˌpɹiːdəˈsiːs/

predecease (plural predeceases)

1. The death of one person or thing before another.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

     "PRIVATE: for the hands of G. J. Utterson ALONE, and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,"

• French: prédécès
• Italian: premorienza

predecease (predeceases, present participle predeceasing; past and past participle predeceased)

1. (transitive) To die sooner than.

   Husbands usually predecease their wives.

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto), London: Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664 ↗:

     If children predecease progenitors.

• (die sooner than) outlive, survive

• French: prédécéder