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retrodates

retrodates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of retrodate.

Meaning of retrodate

Verb

retrodate (third-person singular simple present retrodates, present participle retrodating, simple past and past participle retrodated)

  1. (transitive) To assign a date to (a publication) that is earlier than the real one.

Questions about retrodates

What is retrodates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Retrodates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of retrodate.

Words near retrodates in the dictionary

  1. retrocycloaddition
  2. retrocycloadditions
  3. retrod
  4. retrodate
  5. retrodated
  6. retrodates
  7. retrodating
  8. retrodden
  9. retrodeform
  10. retrodeformable
  11. retrodeformation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retrodates (page history and authors); retrodate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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