predate ['pri:'deit]
参考词典中predate的常规释义：
基本释义
- v. 提早日期;预期;居先;预料
词形变化
- 时 态：pre·dat·ed, pre·dat·ing, pre·dates
英英解释
4个动词解释
- be earlier in time; go back further
[同] forego, forgo, antecede, antedate, precede, predate
[反] follow, postdate
[例]- Stone tools precede bronze tools
- come before
[同] precede, predate
[例]- Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify
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- prey on or hunt for
[同] predate, prey, raven
[例]- These mammals predate certain eggs
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else
[同] foredate, antedate, predate
[反] postdate
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