Definition of anticipate

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Anticipate (v. t.) To foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of; as, to anticipate the pleasures of a visit; to anticipate the evils of life..

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Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate..
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..
Anticipate :: Anticipate (v. t.) To foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of; as, to anticipate the pleasures of a visit; to anticipate the evils of life..
Anticipator :: Anticipator (n.) One who anticipates.
Prevent :: Prevent (v. t.) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
Foretaste :: Foretaste (v. t.) To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.
Forethink :: Forethink (v. t.) To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate.
Look :: Look (v. i.) To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.
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..
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.
Divine :: Divine (v. t.) To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.
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..
Preventer :: Preventer (n.) One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another.
Dreamer :: Dreamer (n.) A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer..
Anticipated :: Anticipated (imp. & p. p.) of Anticipat.
Preoccupate :: Preoccupate (v. t.) To anticipate; to take before.
Prevene :: Prevene (v. t. & i.) To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder; to prevent..
Antedate :: Antedate (v. t.) To anticipate; to make before the true time.
Inexpectable :: Inexpectable (a.) Not to be expected or anticipated.
Prolepsis :: Prolepsis (n.) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
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