verb🔗ShareTo designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)"The teacher mistakenly predated the homework assignment's due date, making it appear as though it was due last week instead of next week. "timehistoryactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo exist or to occur before something else; to antedate."The invention of the printing press predated the internet by several centuries. "timehistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo prey upon something.""A bigger, older bully predated the smaller kids in the schoolyard, taking their lunch money." "animalbiologyecologynatureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
