Synonyms of the word

predate

• v. To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time…
• v. (transitive) To exist, or to occur before something else; to antedate (the more correct term for this…
• n. A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date…
• v. To prey upon something.

antecede

• v. To go before; to precede.
• v. To predate or antedate.

antedate

• v. To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.
• v. To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date; to backdate.
• n. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
• n. (obsolete) anticipation.

chronologise

• v. Alternative spelling of chronologize.

chronologize

• v. To establish an order of events based on the time of their occurrence.

forage

• n. Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
• n. An act or instance of foraging.
• n. (obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population.
• v. To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
• v. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
• v. To rummage.

foredate

• v. (transitive) To date before the true time; to antedate.

forego

• v. To precede, to go before.
• v. Alternative spelling of forgo; to abandon, to relinquish.

forgo

• v. To let pass, to leave alone.
• v. To do without, to abandon.
• v. To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.

lie

• v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
• v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
• v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
• v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
• v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
• v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
• n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
• n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
• v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
• n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
• n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
• n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

precede

• v. (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
• v. (intransitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
• v. (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
• n. Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay).

prey

• n. (archaic) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in…
• n. That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
• n. A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
• n. The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
• n. The victim of a disease.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a predator.

raven

• n. A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially…
• adj. Of the color of the raven; jet-black.
• n. Rapine; rapacity.
• n. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
• v. (transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
• v. (transitive) To prey on with rapacity.
• v. (intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).