predate

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

verb

1. be earlier in time;
go back further
- Stone tools precede bronze tools
• Syn:
precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate
• Ant:
postdate
• Derivationally related forms:
antecedency (for: antecede), antecedent (for: antecede), antecedence (for: antecede), precedent (for: precede), precession (for: precede), precedency (for: precede), precedence (for: precede)
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
2. establish something as being earlier relative to something else
• Syn:
antedate, foredate
• Ant:
postdate
• Hypernyms:
chronologize, chronologise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. come before
- Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify
• Syn:
precede
• Derivationally related forms:
precedent (for: precede), precession (for: precede)
• Hypernyms:
lie
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
4. prey on or hunt for
- These mammals predate certain eggs
• Syn:
raven, prey
• Derivationally related forms:
predation, prey (for: prey)
• Hypernyms:
forage
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP (for: prey)
- Somebody ----s (for: raven)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  antedate, foredate, raven, prey, precede, forego, forgo, antecede
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  postdate, follow