All anticipate synonyms

verb anticipate

• predict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
• count on — If you count on something or count upon it, you expect it to happen and include it in your plans.
• foresee — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
• assume — If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
• await — If you await someone or something, you wait for them.
• forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
• see — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• forestall — to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance: to forestall a riot by deploying police.
• conjecture — A conjecture is a conclusion that is based on information that is not certain or complete.
• visualize — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
• figure — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
• prophesy — to foretell or predict.
• foretell — to tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy.
• suppose — to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
• prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
• divine — of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
• wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• apprehend — If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
• preclude — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
• intercept — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
• precede — to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• bargain for — If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.
• jump the gun — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
• foretaste — a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.
• look for — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• plan on — intend to
• prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• get ahead — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• antedate — to be or occur at an earlier date than
• visualise — to recall or form mental images or pictures.