- anticiparse a
- v.1 to anticipate, to steal a march on, to be ahead of.Tito se anticipó a los acontecimientos Tito anticipated the happenings.2 to get ahead of.María se anticipó a las exigencias Mary got ahead of the necessities.3 to start early to, to move ahead to.María se anticipó a manejar Mary started early to drive.* * *(v.) = quicken to, outguess, second-guess [secondguess], forestallEx. 'Congratulations, Mr. Balzac!' exclaimed Hernandez, quickening to the fascinating possibilities of the announcement.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.* * *(v.) = quicken to, outguess, second-guess [secondguess], forestall
Ex: 'Congratulations, Mr. Balzac!' exclaimed Hernandez, quickening to the fascinating possibilities of the announcement.
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.
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.