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pre-treat

pre-treat is the alternative form of pretreat.

Meaning of pretreat

Verb

pretreat (third-person singular simple present pretreats, present participle pretreating, simple past and past participle pretreated)

  1. (transitive) To give something a treatment prior to another operation.

Forms of pre-treat

third-person singular presentpre-treats
present participlepre-treating
past participlepre-treated
pastpre-treated

Questions about pre-treat

What is pre-treat the alternative form of?
Pre-treat is the alternative form of pretreat.

Words near pre-treat in the dictionary

  1. pre-train
  2. pre-trained
  3. pre-training
  4. pre-trains
  5. pre-transmission
  6. pre-treat
  7. pre-treated
  8. pre-treating
  9. pre-treats
  10. pre-trial
  11. pre-trials

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-treat (page history and authors); pretreat (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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