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ANTEDATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they antedate ... he / she / it antedates
Past simple: antedated
Past participle: antedated
-ing form: antedating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Establish something as being earlier relative to something else
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "antedate" is one way to...):
chronologise; chronologize (establish the order in time of something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be earlier in time; go back further
Example:
Stone tools precede bronze tools
Synonyms:
antecede; antedate; forego; forgo; precede; predate
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
