predate in English
this letter predates her illness
A further 13 % were predated or scavenged during the shooting season (some of which may have been shot but not picked up).
Use "predate" in a sentence
1. Stone knives predate bows and arrows.
2. 10 synonyms for Antedate: antecede, precede, predate, antecede, forego, precede, predate, forgo
3. These mammals predate certain eggs.
4. Many economic systems predate capitalism.
5. The major part of these changes predate 19
6. Koryu Budo are schools of budo that predate 1868.
7. These cave paintings predate any others which are known.
8. Antonyms for Backdate include postdate, follow, succeed and predate
9. Indeed, this strand may well predate the anti - pollution effort.
10. Cooling towers predate the nuclear age; a fact that may surprise many.
11. The elements from which the Relief Society grew predate its organization.
12. The origins of this theory actually predate widespread interest in 20
13. As I drove to her house, I actually had a case of predate jitters!
14. Rather these are mental health problems which predate the onset of later life.
15. Synonyms for Backdate include date, predate, sign, stamp, validate, antedate, precede, anticipate, forego and antecede
16. Several non-commercial email games played on the Internet and BITNET predate these.
17. Leopards and black-backed jackals also predate young horses, although this is more rare.
18. Field relationships predate the high level, late tectonic, granitoid stocks lying within adjacent supracrustal rocks.
19. The adhesion function of IgSF members is believed to predate their role in antigen recognition.
20. 17 The adhesion function of IgSF members is believed to predate their role in antigen recognition.
21. Synonyms for Antedate include precede, predate, anticipate, forego, antecede, go before, preexist, accelerate, anachronize and backdate
22. Many scientists maintain that Chordates originated sometime earlier than 590 million years ago; that is, they predate the fossil record
23. There are many synonyms of Antecedes which include Accelerate, Antecede, Backdate, Misdate, Pace, Precede, Predate, Anachronize, Date Back, Forerun, etc.
24. Because of the risk of injury and the need to kill prey quickly, predators usually predate animals smaller than themselves.
25. Antedate: 1 v be earlier in time; go back further Synonyms: antecede , forego , forgo , precede , predate Antonyms: follow , postdate be later in time come after , follow come after in time, as a result show more antonyms v establish something as being earlier relative to something else Synonyms: foredate , predate Antonyms: postdate
26. It may predate larger animals as well as small mammals(sentence dictionary), with records of prey as large as juvenile foxes and roe deer.
27. Backdate definition, to date earlier than the actual date; predate; antedate: Backdate the letter so he'll think I wrote it last week
28. It may predate larger animals as well as small mammals, with records of prey as large as juvenile foxes and roe deer.
29. Roughly the same definitions of Antedate and the explicit equating of predate with, simply, "Antedate" go back to the Fifth Collegiate (1936)
30. Cuneiform was the first known form of written language, but spoken language is believed to predate writing by tens of thousands of years at least.
31. The Aboriginal occupation of Queensland is thought to predate 50,000 BC, likely via boat or land bridge across Torres Strait, and became divided into over 90 different language groups.
32. Although the decline in Antedated seems to mirror the rise in predated, a confounding variable is at work: use of predated as a past tense of predate in the sense of "acted as a predator upon"—a meaning that Merriam-Webster as yet does not officially acknowledge, but that is not at all rare in recent Google Books matches such as this one