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prevedere — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • anticipate verb To expect something and prepare for it in advance.
  • envision verb To imagine something as a future possibility, often in vivid detail.
  • forecast verb To predict how something, especially the weather or the economy, will develop.
  • foresee verb To know or realize something will happen before it does.
  • foreshadow verb To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.
  • foretell verb To predict or announce something before it happens.
  • imagine verb To form a mental picture of something, especially something not present or not real.
  • provide verb To supply someone with something they need or want.
  • require verb To need something as essential.
  • slate noun A fine-grained gray rock that splits easily into thin flat sheets, often used for roofing.

Senses

prevedere is used for these senses in English:

  • anticipate (transitive) To know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
  • envision (transitive) To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.
  • forecast To estimate how something will be in the future.
  • foreknow To have knowledge of beforehand.
  • foresee (obsolete) To provide.
  • foreshadow (transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance. [from 16th c.]
  • foretell (ambitransitive) To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy.
  • imagine (transitive) To conjecture; to guess.

anticipate — full definition

  1. verb To expect something and prepare for it in advance.
  2. verb To act ahead of someone or something, often to head off a problem before it happens.

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