pre-fire
pre-fire verb: to shoot at the anticipated location of another player before they are visible or within range.
Verb
pre-fire (third-person singular simple present pre-fires, present participle pre-firing, simple past and past participle pre-fired)
- To shoot at the anticipated location of another player before they are visible or within range.
- I could hear him just around the corner, so I just started pre-firing until he walked right into the cascade of bullets.
- There will be times you go from a full health bar to almost dead in one round of cart combat, but you can always repair at the next town, and there are definitely attacks that you can "pre-fire" to prevent getting bogged down and stay healthy.2015, Andrew Fretz, “'Wizards and Wagons' Review - Shop Management Gets Mobile”, in TouchArcade, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2018
Forms of pre-fire
| third-person singular present | pre-fires |
|---|---|
| present participle | pre-firing |
| past participle | pre-fired |
| past | pre-fired |
| alternative form | prefire |
Origin of pre-fire
From pre- + fire (“to shoot”).
Questions about pre-fire
- What does pre-fire mean?
- Pre-fire means to shoot at the anticipated location of another player before they are visible or within range.
- What part of speech is pre-fire?
- Pre-fire is a verb.
- What is the past tense of pre-fire?
- The past tense of pre-fire is pre-fired.
Words near pre-fire in the dictionary
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