(of a crime or bad action) planned in advance a premeditated attack The killing was not premeditated. opposite unpremeditated
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NAmE//priˌmɛdəˈteɪʃn//
noun [uncountable]See premeditated in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: premeditated