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antedatean‧te‧date /ˈæntɪdeɪt, ˌæntɪˈdeɪt/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEantedate |
Present | I, you, we, they | antedate | | he, she, it | antedates | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | antedated | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have antedated | | he, she, it | has antedated | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had antedated | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will antedate | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have antedated |
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Present | I | am antedating | | he, she, it | is antedating | | you, we, they | are antedating | Past | I, he, she, it | was antedating | | you, we, they | were antedating | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been antedating | | he, she, it | has been antedating | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been antedating | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be antedating | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been antedating |
- That debate antedated the disclosure of the contents of the present documents.
- They felt that the despair long antedated the neoplasms and that their becoming fatally ill merely confirmed what they already believed.
- This appears convincing since the decline in mortality rates antedated for the most part the advent of efficacious pills and surgical procedures.
formal to come from an earlier time in history than something else SYN predate OPP postdate: The economic troubles antedate the current administration. |