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(v)
To have knowledge of beforehand.
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(ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
To perceive (a situation or event) in advance.
(ambitransitive) To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy.
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
(transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
(intransitive) To happen or take place.
(ambitransitive, ditransitive) To commit to (some action or outcome), or to assure (a person) of such commitment; to make an oath or vow.
To contradict, oppose.
(transitive) To seek.
(transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
(idiomatic) To seek inspiration or advice or reward from someone.
(heading) To reach out with one's voice.
(transitive) To go before, go in front of.
(adj)
Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur.
(transitive) To prevent or beat to the punch, to forestall an expected occurrence by acting first.
To pay in advance, or beforehand
(n)
A prediction of the weather.
A prediction.
A forecast or prediction.
(ambitransitive) To form a judgment of (something) in advance.
Alternative spelling of preempt. [(transitive) To appropriate first.]
(transitive) To have a negative impact on (someone's position, chances etc.).
To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
(transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
(intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
(transitive) To think about seriously.
To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
(transitive, intransitive) To anticipate or predict someone's actions or thoughts by guesswork.
(transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
(transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm.
Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
(transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.
To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
(transitive) To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.
(transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
(transitive) To include (something) as a part.
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
(transitive) To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
(transitive) To create.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
To help the progress of (something); to further.
(transitive, formal) To wait for.
(intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
To create a time-schedule.
(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
(transitive) To sell at a reduced price.
(transitive) To hold inside.
To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events; to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable outcome.
To move more quickly than (someone or something) so as to outrun or leave it behind.
(transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
(transitive) To create a plan for.
(medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
(figurative) To designate or set aside (someone or something) for a particular purpose; to allocate.
expect or hope for
Of or pertaining to a god.
To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration).
(often in a Biblical context) To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand.
(transitive) To predict or foretell something.
A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
(colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
(transitive) To rely on, trust, or expect.
(obsolete) To come before; to anticipate.
To take action in advance of an expected event
(transitive, rare) To think about beforehand; to anticipate.
To expect; to anticipate future actions based on.
To take preemptive action before a potential development becomes reality.
To act or perform beforehand.
(transitive) To forecast.
To come before and influence, especially to precede and prevent.
To attend ahead of time; to pay attention to or consider in advance.
(transitive) To seek beforehand; seek in advance.
(transitive) To count beforehand.
(transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
To answer beforehand or in advance
A promise made in advance
(transitive) To precede.
(transitive) To prefigure.
(transitive) To learn beforehand or in advance.
To perceive in advance.
(transitive) To date in advance
(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To oversee; superintend; direct.
(transitive) To consider beforehand; think about in advance.
(transitive) To cut beforehand or in advance.
(transitive, rare, archaic) To presage; predict.
(transitive) To locate in advance.
(transitive) To state in advance