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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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear..

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

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

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 be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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

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..

Anticipate :: Anticipate (v. t.) To foresee (a wish, command, etc.) and do beforehand that which will be desired..

Anticipator :: Anticipator (n.) One who anticipates.

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

Augur :: Augur (v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill..

Look :: Look (v. i.) To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.

Preoccupate :: Preoccupate (v. t.) To anticipate; to take before.

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.

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