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[ verb ] regard something as probable or likely
Synonyms Examples "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Ralph_Houk , successor to Casey_Stengel at the Yankee helm , plans to bring the entire New_York squad here from St._Petersburg , including Joe_Dimaggio and large crowds are anticipated for both weekend games . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)Still , the network 's willingness to experiment in this musical field is to be commended , and future essays happily anticipated . Even Joan_Sutherland may not have anticipated the tremendous reception she received from the Metropolitan_Opera audience attending her debut as Lucia in Donizetti 's `` Lucia_di_Lammermoor '' Sunday night . |
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[ verb ] act in advance of; deal with ahead of time
Used in print (Christopher Davis, First Family....)Mr._McKinley , for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity , was completely alert to his son , eyes always on the still face , jumping to anticipate Scotty_'s desires . |
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[ verb ] realize beforehand
Used in print (Newark Evening News...)Mr._Mitchell had an excuse for losing - the steel strike lasted much longer than he anticipated . (The Atlanta Constitution...)In_that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr._Hoover , and the party 's failure to anticipate or cope_with the depression , caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican_party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human_beings caught_up in the distress and suffering brought_on by the economic crash . (Howard J. Parad, "Preventive casework: problems...)The result , dramatically visible in a matter of days in the family 's disrupted daily functioning , was a phobic-like fear that some terrible harm would befall the second twin , whose birth had not been anticipated . |
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[ verb ] make a prediction about; tell in advance
Examples "Call the outcome of an election" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)In method as_well_as in theme this little anecdote with its details selected as much for expressiveness and allegory as for `` realism '' , anticipates a kind of musical_composition , as_well as a kind of fictional composition , in which , as Leverku^hn says , `` there shall be nothing unthematic '' . Related terms guess bet read forecast prophesy secondguess augur prophecy prediction foreboding forecaster prognosis |
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[ verb ] be excited or anxious about
Used in print (Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)It poured out of him like an electric_current , a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action , and that that action would be all that he anticipated . |
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[ verb ] be a forerunner of or occur earlier than
Examples "This composition anticipates Impressionism" |
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[ verb ] be a forerunner of or occur earlier than, as in
Synonyms happen take_place go_on pass come_about pass_off hap fall_out occur Examples : "This composition anticipates Impressionism" Used in print (Richard B. Morris, "Seven Who Set Our Destiny"...)As first Chief_Justice , his strong nationalist opinions anticipated John_Marshall . |
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