(of a crime or bad action罪案或恶行) planned in advance预谋的;事先策划的- The killing had not been premeditated.这次杀人不是预谋的。🔊🔊
- This was a callous, premeditated attack on a defenceless young man.这是对一个手无寸铁的青年的蓄意残害。
opposite unpremeditatedTopics Crime and punishmentc2, War and conflictc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryPremeditated is used with these nouns: See full entry Word Originmid 16th cent. (earlier (late Middle English) as premeditation): from Latin praemeditat- ‘thought out before’, from the verb praemeditari, from prae ‘before’ + meditari ‘meditate’ + -ed.