anticipate /an-tisˈi-pāt/

1. To forestall (a person or thing)
2. To use, spend, deal with in advance or before the due time
3. To realize beforehand
4. To foresee or count upon as certain
5. To expect
6. To precede (rare)
7. To advance to an earlier time, bring on sooner

1. To do anything, or take action, before the appropriate, expected or due time
2. To be before the normal time (obsolete)

anticˈipant adjective

Anticipating, anticipative (also noun)

anticipāˈtion noun

1. An act of anticipating
2. Imagining beforehand
3. Expectation
4. Assignment to too early a time
5. The introduction of a tone or tones of a chord before the whole chord (music)
6. Intuition
7. Foretaste
8. Previous notion
9. Presentiment
10. Prejudice (obsolete)

antiˈcipātive or antiˈcipatory adjective

antiˈcipātively or antiˈcipatorily adverb

• tautologised
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• tautologisms
• tautologist
• tautologists
• tautologize
• tautologized
• tautologizes
• tautologizing
• tautologous
• tautologously
• tautology
• tautomer
• tautomeric
• tautomerism
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• tautometric
• tautometrical
• tautonym
• tautonymies
• tautonymous
• tautonyms