Meaning & use
premeditated
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Planned or thought out in advance, especially referring to a crime.
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The prosecutor argued that the attack was premeditated, not a spontaneous act.
Premeditated murder carries a harsher sentence than a crime committed in the heat of the moment.
A note on using this word
Used almost exclusively in legal or crime-related contexts to indicate intent formed beforehand.
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