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pre-fires

pre-fires is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-fires

What is pre-fires the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pre-fires is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pre-fire.

Words near pre-fires in the dictionary

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

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