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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To know in advance; foresee.
  • transitive verb To notify in advance; forewarn.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To foresee.
  • To cause to foresee; forewarn; advise beforehand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To foresee.
  • transitive verb To inform beforehand; to warn.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To foresee.
  • verb To warn.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb realize beforehand
  • verb warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English previsen, from Latin praevidēre, praevīs- : prae-, pre- + vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin praevisus, the past participle of praevidēre

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