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pre-exist

pre-exist is the alternative 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 pre-exist

third-person singular presentpre-exists
present participlepre-existing
past participlepre-existed
pastpre-existed
alternative formpreexist
alternative formpreëxist

Questions about pre-exist

What is pre-exist the alternative form of?
Pre-exist is the alternative form of preexist.

Words near pre-exist in the dictionary

  1. pre-establishes
  2. pre-establishing
  3. pre-everything
  4. pre-excellency
  5. pre-exilic
  6. pre-exist
  7. pre-existed
  8. pre-existent
  9. pre-existing
  10. pre-existing condition
  11. pre-existing conditions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-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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