predecease

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The death of one person or thing before another.
    — ‘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.
动词 v.
  1. To die sooner than. transitive
    — Husbands usually predecease their wives.

词形变化

predeceases plural predeceases present,singular,third-person predeceasing participle,present predeceased participle,past predeceased past

词汇关系

反义词
outlive postdecease survive

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English decease
English predecease
From pre- + decease.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English decease
English predecease
From pre- + decease.
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