ANTICIPATE

verb (-pated; -pating) see: heave Date: 1532 transitive verb to give advance thought, discussion, or treatment to, to meet (an obligation) before a due date, to foresee and deal with in advance ; forestall , to use or expend in advance of actual possession, to act before (another) often so as to check or counter, to look forward to as certain ; expect , intransitive verb to speak or write in knowledge or expectation of later matter, see: foresee anticipatable adjective anticipator noun