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antedate

/verb an-ti-deyt, an-ti-deyt; noun an-ti-deyt/US // verb ˈæn tɪˌdeɪt, ˌæn tɪˈdeɪt; noun ˈæn tɪˌdeɪt //

提前,之前的日期,之前,前期

Related Words

predate前身,前期,早期的,早期pace步伐,步调,步速,步伐一致accelerate加速,加速推进,加速前进,加速发展precede前导,前,先于,前面antecede拮抗剂,拮据,拮抗,拮抗药backdate过期,过渡期,过期时间,过期日期misdate错误的日期,过错日期,误期,过错的日期forerun先行者,预先,先行,先行的

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    an·te·dat·ed, an·te·dat·ing.

    • : to be of older date than; precede in time: The Peruvian empire antedates the Mexican empire.
    • : predate.
    • : to assign to an earlier date: to antedate a historical event.
    • : to cause to return to an earlier time: to antedate one's thoughts by remembering past events.
    • : to cause to happen sooner; accelerate: The cold weather antedated their departure from the country.
    • : Archaic. to take or have in advance; anticipate.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a prior date.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verboccur or cause to occur earlier
Synonyms
accelerate加速,加速推进,加速前进,加速发展antecede拮抗剂,拮据,拮抗,拮抗药backdate过期,过渡期,过期时间,过期日期misdate错误的日期,过错日期,误期,过错的日期pace步伐,步调,步速,步伐一致precede前导,前,先于,前面predate前身,前期,早期的,早期anachronize不合时宜,不合时宜的,不符合时代精神的,不合时宜的做法date back返回日期,日期回溯,回溯日期,日期回溯到forerun先行者,预先,先行,先行的

Examples

  • A foreign patent in order to invalidate an American patent must antedate the invention patented.

  • However, most of the older residences in Fredericksburg antedate the fire, and are of an earlier Colonial period.

  • They antedate questions, and thus in all cases aggravate the difficulty of answering them satisfactorily.

  • So powerful is this instinctive faith that men of simple modes of character are prone to antedate its consummation.

  • No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb.

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