adelantarse a

v.

1 to get ahead of, to get past, to cut ahead of, to draw ahead of.

Tito se anticipó a los acontecimientos Tito anticipated the happenings.

2 to go ahead to, to proceed to.

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to anticipate

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(v.) = outguess, second-guess [secondguess], forestall

Ex. Four years of attempting to catalog everything in a depository collection taught me that it was easier to do all the original cataloging than to try to outguess the rules used previously.

Ex. This does not imply that the abstractor becomes a publication referee, trying to second-guess decisions already made by editors.

Ex. Attempting to forestall problems before they were created was essential to the planning.

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(v.) = outguess, second-guess [secondguess], forestall

Ex: Four years of attempting to catalog everything in a depository collection taught me that it was easier to do all the original cataloging than to try to outguess the rules used previously.

Ex: This does not imply that the abstractor becomes a publication referee, trying to second-guess decisions already made by editors.

Ex: Attempting to forestall problems before they were created was essential to the planning.