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Anticipate   /æntˈɪsəpˌeɪt/   Listen
Anticipate

verb
(past & past part. anticipated; pres. part. anticipating)
1.
Regard something as probable or likely.  Synonym: expect.
2.
Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time.  Synonyms: counter, foresee, forestall.
3.
Realize beforehand.  Synonyms: foreknow, foresee, previse.
4.
Make a prediction about; tell in advance.  Synonyms: call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise.
5.
Be excited or anxious about.  Synonyms: look for, look to.
6.
Be a forerunner of or occur earlier than.





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"Anticipate" Quotes from Famous Books



... through the underbrush in renewed pursuit. He came in sight of them again, just as they reached the river bank. Once more his carbine was leveled. Barney pushed the girl to her knees behind a bush. Then he wheeled and fired, so quickly that the man with the already leveled gun had no time to anticipate his act. ...
— The Mad King • Edgar Rice Burroughs
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... woman finds herself educated to recognize a stress of social obligation which her family did not in the least anticipate when they sent her to college. She finds herself, in addition, under an impulse to act her part as a citizen of the world. She accepts her family inheritance with loyalty and affection, but she has entered into a wider inheritance ...
— Democracy and Social Ethics • Jane Addams
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... exclaimed the aja. "Have you then presumed to anticipate the will of God, and to go ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
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... be lined with men whom you can trust. I anticipate neither trouble nor resistance. The whole thing is a simple formality to which the Englishman has already intimated his readiness to submit. If he changes his mind at the last moment there will be no Angelus rung, no booming of the cannons or opening of the prison doors: there will be ...
— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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... duly posted about the Commune, and set to work, men, women, and children alike silent and serious. So many of the grapes are harvested and manufactured in common that it is necessary the vintage should begin on a fixed day, and no one was allowed to anticipate or postpone. Some cut the grapes, and dropped them into the flattish wooden barrels, which others, after mashing the berries with a long wooden pestle, bore off and emptied frothing and gurgling into big casks mounted ...
— A Little Swiss Sojourn • W. D. Howells
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