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 antecede, antedate, forego, predate, preexist

Antonyms follow, postdate, succeed

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