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[ verb ] be earlier in time; go back further
Examples "Stone tools precede bronze tools" Used in print ("Editorials"...)A British writer , Richard_Haestier , in a book , Dead_Men_Tell_Tales , recalls that in the turmoil preceding French_Revolution the body of Henry_/4 , , who had died nearly 180 years earlier , was torn to pieces by a mob . (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)And there is a way in which he might hold that badness did in this case precede our own feeling of disapproval without belonging_to the pain itself . Related terms |
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[ verb ] come before
Synonyms Examples "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify" Used in print (Hugh Kelly and Ted Ziehe, "Glossary Lookup Made Easy"...)form - any unique sequence of alphabetic_characters that can appear in a language preceded and followed by a space . Let us assume that * * f is identical to the form of an occurrence * * f which preceded * * f in the text . Related terms |
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[ verb ] be the predecessor of
Synonyms Examples "Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands" Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)But even before that , Picasso had glimpsed and entered , for a moment , a certain revolutionary path in which no one had preceded him . Related terms |
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[ verb ] move ahead (of others) in time or space
Synonyms Used in print (R. Leslie Gourse, With Gall and Honey....)I thought he would ask us to leave because Rachel and I were bare-armed , but he looked down into his beard and preceded us down the corridor . Related terms |
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