premeditate

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He is known to premeditate, he is calculating, deceptive and takes great strains to conceal his identity.

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  1. transitive verb To plan, arrange, or plot (a crime, for example) in advance.
  2. intransitive verb To reflect, ponder, or deliberate beforehand.

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  1. from Latin præmeditatus, past participle of præmeditari (later Italian premeditare = Spanish Portuguese premeditar = French préméditer), consider or think beforehand, from præ, before, + meditari, consider, meditate: see meditate.
  2. from Latin præmeditatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/prəˈmɛdɪteɪt/
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