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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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Foretaste :: Foretaste (v. t.) To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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