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Forego :: Forego (v. t.) To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated..

Dream :: Dream (n.) To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.

Antedate :: Antedate (v. t.) To anticipate; to make before the true time.

Prevene :: Prevene (v. t. & i.) To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder; to prevent..

Anticipate :: Anticipate (v. t.) To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate..

Preventer :: Preventer (n.) One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another.

Anticipate :: Anticipate (v. t.) To take up or introduce beforehand, or before the proper or normal time; to cause to occur earlier or prematurely; as, the advocate has anticipated a part of his argument..

Dream :: Dream (n.) A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth..

Expect :: Expect (v. t.) To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated..

Discount :: Discount (v.) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

Obviate :: Obviate (v. t.) To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going..

Divine :: Divine (v. t.) To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.

Anticipated :: Anticipated (imp. & p. p.) of Anticipat.

Prolepsis :: Prolepsis (n.) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

Prevent :: Prevent (v. t.) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

Dreamer :: Dreamer (n.) A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer..

Inexpectable :: Inexpectable (a.) Not to be expected or anticipated.

Forethink :: Forethink (v. t.) To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate.

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets..

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