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Emptive

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Responding to or acting to counteract something when it happens (rather than beforehand). rare

    "Mike Malone recalls how the shaving of his fiancée's head was more of an “emptive” strike, since her hair was already on its way out."

Etymology

Back-formation from preemptive.

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