Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to predecease
Participle: predeceased
Gerund: predeceasing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | predecease |
| you | predecease |
| he;she;it | predeceases |
| we | predecease |
| you | predecease |
| they | predecease |
Perfect
| I | have predeceased |
| you | have predeceased |
| he;she;it | has predeceased |
| we | have predeceased |
| you | have predeceased |
| they | have predeceased |
Past
| I | predeceased |
| you | predeceased |
| he;she;it | predeceased |
| we | predeceased |
| you | predeceased |
| they | predeceased |
Pluperfect
| I | had predeceased |
| you | had predeceased |
| he;she;it | had predeceased |
| we | had predeceased |
| you | had predeceased |
| they | had predeceased |
Future
| I | will predecease |
| you | will predecease |
| he;she;it | will predecease |
| we | will predecease |
| you | will predecease |
| they | will predecease |
Future Perfect
| I | will have predeceased |
| you | will have predeceased |
| he;she;it | will have predeceased |
| we | will have predeceased |
| you | will have predeceased |
| they | will have predeceased |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | predecease |
| you | predecease |
| he;she;it | predecease |
| we | predecease |
| you | predecease |
| they | predecease |
Perfect
| I | have predeceased |
| you | have predeceased |
| he;she;it | have predeceased |
| we | have predeceased |
| you | have predeceased |
| they | have predeceased |
Imperfect
| I | predeceased |
| you | predeceased |
| he;she;it | predeceased |
| we | predeceased |
| you | predeceased |
| they | predeceased |
Pluperfect
| I | had predeceased |
| you | had predeceased |
| he;she;it | had predeceased |
| we | had predeceased |
| you | had predeceased |
| they | had predeceased |
Conditional
Present
| I | would predecease |
| you | would predecease |
| he;she;it | would predecease |
| we | would predecease |
| you | would predecease |
| they | would predecease |
Perfect
| I | would have predeceased |
| you | would have predeceased |
| he;she;it | would have predeceased |
| we | would have predeceased |
| you | would have predeceased |
| they | would have predeceased |
Imperative
| you | predecease |
| we | Let's predecease |
| you | predecease |
Verbs conjugated like 'predecease'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'predecease'
predecess,
predeclare,
prerelease,
decease,
precrease,
predicate,
pregrease,
prelease,
redeclare,
rerelease,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *per-
3. Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-i
5. Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
6. Proto-Italic *prai
7. Proto-Italic *prai-
8. Latin prae-lbor.
9. Middle English pre-
10. English pre-
11. English decease
12. English predecease
13. From pre- + decease.
Sample Sentences
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Husbands usually predecease their wives.
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Frederick, Prince of Wales, predeceased his father and never became king.
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If children prædeceaſe progenitours, / VVe are their ofſpring and they none of ours. [1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature M2, verso:]
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The death of cardinal York extinguished the descendants of James II., and as he had no brother but Charles II., who prædeceased him without legitimate issue, the succession the opened to the descendants of his sister, the princess Henrietta Maria, wife of Phillippe, duke of Orleans. [1883, “The Countess of Albany, Charles Edward, and Alfieri”, in The Monograph, a Serial Collection of Indexed Essays, number II, Bangor, Me.: Q. P. Index, →OCLC, note 4, page 43:]
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Two brothers and a sister predeceased him. Bergoglio is survived by a sister, María Elena. [2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:]