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predate   (TTS Sound)

The verb predate has 4 senses

• predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate -- (be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools")


• precede, predate -- (come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify")


• raven, prey, predate -- (prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs")


• predate, antedate, foredate -- (establish something as being earlier relative to something else)