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pre-mortem

pre-mortem is the alternative spelling of premortem.

Meaning of premortem

Adjective

premortem (not comparable)

  1. Before death.
    • Reappearing, tape-measure in hand, he went into the bedroom and took slow and accurate measurements, whistling delightedly to find that his pre-mortem theoretical calculations and post-mortem practical measurements hardly varied.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 126

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Forms of pre-mortem

pluralpre-mortems

Questions about pre-mortem

What is pre-mortem the alternative spelling of?
Pre-mortem is the alternative spelling of premortem.

Words near pre-mortem in the dictionary

  1. pre-mined
  2. pre-mines
  3. pre-mining
  4. pre-moderation
  5. pre-modern
  6. pre-mortem
  7. pre-mortems
  8. pre-mortuary science
  9. pre-Muslim
  10. pre-Nectarian
  11. pre-notice

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-mortem (page history and authors); premortem (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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