Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb antedate

2 senses of antedate

Sense 1
predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate -- (be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools")

Sense 2
predate, antedate, foredate -- (establish something as being earlier relative to something else)
       => chronologize, chronologise -- (establish the order in time of something; "The archivist chronologized the documents")