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præexist

præexist 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 præexist

third-person singular presentpræexists
present participlepræexisting
past participlepræexisted
pastpræexisted

Questions about præexist

What is præexist the obsolete form of?
Præexist is the obsolete form of preexist.

Words near præexist in the dictionary

  1. prædominating
  2. prædorsal
  3. præeminent
  4. præemption
  5. præemptions
  6. præexist
  7. præface
  8. præfaced
  9. præfaces
  10. præfacing
  11. præfatory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præexist (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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