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præ-exist

præ-exist is the obsolete form of preexist.

Meaning of preexist

Verb

preexist (third-person singular simple present preexists, present participle preexisting, simple past and past participle preexisted)

  1. (intransitive) To exist before something else.
    • The new device utilized technologies that preexisted.

Forms of præ-exist

third-person singular presentpræ-exists
present participlepræ-existing
past participlepræ-existed
pastpræ-existed

Questions about præ-exist

What is præ-exist the obsolete form of?
Præ-exist is the obsolete form of preexist.

Words near præ-exist in the dictionary

  1. prägnanz
  2. præ-
  3. præ-Adamite
  4. præ-Adamites
  5. præ-emption
  6. præ-exist
  7. præ-mortem
  8. præ-Socratic
  9. præ-Socratics
  10. præamble
  11. præambles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præ-exist (page history and authors); preexist (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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