[
US
/ˈpɹiˈdeɪt, pɹiˈdeɪt/
]
VERB
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come before
Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify -
prey on or hunt for
These mammals predate certain eggs - establish something as being earlier relative to something else
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be earlier in time; go back further
Stone tools precede bronze tools
How To Use predate In A Sentence
- Continuing, he charged the general with inciting his employés to depredate on the fences and fields. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886
- It predates the peaceful non-violence of Martin Luther King.
- The entire area has been depredated in the war.
- Of course, she had it easy: Her name change predated the social media wave, and she made the switch before accumulating nearly 70,000 followers across Twitter and Facebook. Forbes.com: News
- As a result, the species that most frequently depredate nests vary among studies.
- You can use "preyed on", although it has the potential to end a sentence with a preposition, so I prefer "depredated" as an alternate to "predated" meaning eaten. This just in: authors prey on careless copy editor!
- First, the rate at which eggs were depredated was analyzed with survival (or failure time) analysis.
- The cultural landscape predates this, the only ‘wilderness’ of its kind in Portugal, which was created by the Order of Discalced Carrnelites between 1628 and 1630.
- The number of eggs depredated by ghost crabs was estimated by counting those eggs that had a small circular section of the eggshell removed.
- It is thought only the dugout canoe predates the coracle as a means of water travel.
