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pre-fired

pre-fired is the simple past and past participle of pre-fire.

Meaning of pre-fire

Verb

pre-fire (third-person singular simple present pre-fires, present participle pre-firing, simple past and past participle pre-fired)

  1. (intransitive) 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.

Questions about pre-fired

What is pre-fired the simple past and past participle of?
Pre-fired is the simple past and past participle of pre-fire.

Words near pre-fired in the dictionary

  1. pre-film
  2. pre-filmed
  3. pre-filming
  4. pre-films
  5. pre-fire
  6. pre-fired
  7. pre-fires
  8. pre-firing
  9. pre-flop
  10. pre-flops
  11. pre-form

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