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All forerunning antonyms

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adjective forerunning

  • later — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
  • back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
  • inferior — lower in station, rank, degree, or grade (often followed by to): a rank inferior to colonel.
  • last — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
  • unimportant — of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.
  • after — If something happens after a particular date or event, it happens during the period of time that follows that date or event.
  • below — If something is below something else, it is in a lower position.
  • following — the act of following.

verb forerunning

  • bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
  • conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
  • hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
  • refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
  • repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
  • suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
  • withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
  • predate — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
  • deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
  • secret — done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
  • end — Come or bring to a final point; finish.
  • finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
  • follow — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
  • obey — to comply with or follow the commands, restrictions, wishes, or instructions of: to obey one's parents.
  • go after — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • disorder — lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
  • scatter — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
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