Word Finder - anticipating

definition

To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.

synonyms

• preclude

definition

To take up or introduce (something) prematurely.

example

The advocate plans to anticipate a part of her argument.

definition

To know of (something) before it happens; to expect.

example

Please anticipate a journey of an hour from your house to the airport

synonyms

• expect
• foresee
• foretaste

definition

To eagerly wait for (something)

example

Little Johnny started to anticipate the arrival of Santa Claus a week before Christmas.

synonyms

• look forward to

She'd been anticipating this moment for awhile.

For children, anticipating a holiday is half the fun!

She closed her eyes and tilted her head, anticipating the pinch.

Anticipating the high price tag of the war, politicians began to discuss ways to finance military spending.

Anticipating events Gebhard had collected some troops, and had taken measures to convert his subjects to Protestantism.

The extreme republicans, anticipating Rousseau, put forward the Agreement of the People.

This is interesting as anticipating a result of modern criticism, as will appear below.

Stop anticipating how you will act upon stopping smoking.

Women were suddenly anticipating morning showers thanks to mimosa- and white chocolate-scented body washes.

She did so, hands almost shaking in anticipating.

By thus supposing a psychical basis to evolution, Fechner, anticipating Wundt, substituted a psychical development of organs for Darwinian accidental variation.

Anticipating the impact Will the report cause undue anxiety or optimism among audiences or readers?

With such high numbers we are anticipating a really exciting event which will put Shetland on the map.

On the other hand I've felt that live it tends to drag, possibly because I'm anticipating the brass band oompah part.

That being said, a great photographer knows the importance of anticipating the shot before it happens.

The filmmakers will make that DVD available, but know that they are very likely also planning an even bigger release several months down the line, anticipating that you will like it so much, you'll want this deluxe edition.

In the first volume, anticipating an obvious complaint, he had protested against digressions that left the main work to stand still, and had boasted - not without justice in a Shandean sense - that he had reconciled digressive motion with progressive.

Psychologically, you will enjoy the experience more because you've been anticipating it.

The ideas gleaned from watching a few of these programs will be enough to have you dreaming in color and anticipating a glorious day shopping for paint.

I've been anticipating the Nintendo Wii (codenamed Nintendo Revolution during development) for quite some time now, well before they even confirmed the motion-sensitive controls.

People may experience severe anxiety symptoms in anticipating a phobic trigger.

Therefore, women who are anticipating a pregnancy should abstain from all alcoholic beverages.

Even those who frequently endure motion sickness can learn to travel by anticipating the conditions of their next trip.

Parental concerns center primarily on making the child comfortable and anticipating the logistics of traveling with a child who is motion sick.

If pain is due to a medical procedure, management consists of anticipating the type and intensity of associated pain and managing it preemptively.

What tips can you offer families anticipating the death of a loved and would have to settle the estate?

If you are pregnant with triplets, you may be both overjoyed and overwhelmed anticipating your new arrivals.

If you're anticipating spending more than one day by the pool, you may actually want to have a range of different suits to wear.

The committee is anticipating another successful year and expects a sell-out crowd.

Anticipating what the latest hot Christmas toy will be is nearly impossible, especially if you don't have children in the age range of those on your list.

His Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, while setting forth the Spencerian system, made psychological and sociological additions of original matter, in some respects anticipating Spencer's later conclusions.

Such specialists have appeared in the cotton brokers and dealers who make their living out of bearing the risks connected with anticipating demand and supply in relation to cotton.

The risks of anticipating are carried by those who create or hold " futures " without a hedge.

The enforcement of these reforms, however, was postponed sine die owing to the revolution which transformed the Ottoman Empire into a constitutional state; and the powers, anticipating an improvement in the administration of Macedonia by the new government, withdrew their military officers in the summer of 1908.

Assuming as an axiom that the centre of gravity of any number of interdependent bodies cannot rise higher than the point from which it fell, he arrived, by anticipating in the particular case the general principle of the conservation of vis viva, at correct although not strictly demonstrated conclusions.

The founding of new teaching universities, in which England, and even France, had been at some disadvantage as compared with Scotland and Germany, strengthened the movement in favour of enlarging and liberalizing technical training, and of anticipating technical instruction by some broader scientific discipline; though, as in all times of transition, something was lost temporarily by a departure from the old discipline of the grammar school before a new scheme of training the mind in scientific habits and conceptions was established or fully apprehended.

Holders of the government's legal tender notes anticipating this fact presented them for redemption.

So far were the Poles from anticipating any danger from the Teutonic Order, that, from 1243 to 1255, they actually assisted it to overthrow the independent Pomeranian princes, the most formidable opponents of the Knights in the earlier years of their existence.

Having been turned out of other churches, he had leased a plot of land in 1759, anticipating the final withdrawal of his license, in 1763, and a spacious building was erected to which the people crowded from all parts on Sacrament Sunday.

Washington, anticipating this move, had already marched from Boston and fortified the city.

Anticipating the order of chronology slightly, it may be mentioned here that in 1873 Prince Edward Island (q.v.), which had in 1865 decisively rejected proposals of the Quebec conference and had in the following year repeated its rejection of federation by a resolution of the legislature affirming that no terms Canada could offer would be acceptable, now decided to throw in its lot with the Dominion.

An act of 1545 dissolved chantries, colleges and other religious foundations; and in the autumn of 1546 the Spanish ambassador was anticipating further anti-ecclesiastical measures.

Upon the definite refusal of the Mexican government under Paredes to resume with the United States the diplomatic relations broken off by the annexation of Texas, Taylor was ordered to advance to the Rio Grande for the purpose of anticipating any hostile incursion from Mexico.

The offer was not accepted, and Mr. Law, though he joined the Buckingham Palace Conference in a last hope of aiming at a reasonable settlement, was anticipating the immediate outbreak of civil war in Ireland when the World War supervened.

Under this denomination he comprised Servians, Croats, Slovenes and Bulgarians, anticipating the modern appellations of the Yugo-Sloveni (Southern Slays).

But he prosecuted his translation of Plato and prepared a new and greatly altered edition of his Christliche Glaube, anticipating the latter in two letters to his friend Dicke (in the Studien and Kritiken, 1829), in which he defended with a masterly hand his theological position generally and his book in particular against opponents on the right and the left.

Bernadotte, who had helped him to the Consulate, played Napoleon false to win the crown of Sweden; Soult, like Murat, coveted the Spanish throne after that of Portugal, thus anticipating the treason of 1813 and the defection of 1814; many persons hoped for an accident which might resemble the tragic end of Alexander and of Caesar.

And yet, he was excited - anticipating sharing this wonderful event.

Of cash may lead to miller coo at year anticipating further.

He appears to find perverse sexual gratification out of encouraging Othello to strangle Desdemona, as if he was anticipating a snuff movie!