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preexist

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of preexist

to go or come before in time

  • an advanced Mesoamerican civilization whose apex and collapse preexisted the arrival of Europeans by hundreds of years
Synonyms of preexist

antecede, antedate, forego, precede, predate
Antonyms of preexist

follow, postdate, succeed

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