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prebake

prebake verb: to bake (a crust, an industrial compound, etc.) in advance.

Verb

prebake (third-person singular simple present prebakes, present participle prebaking, simple past and past participle prebaked)

  1. (transitive) To bake (a crust, an industrial compound, etc.) in advance.

Noun

prebake (uncountable)

  1. A technology for producing aluminium in which the anodes are baked in large gas-fired ovens before being lowered into the electrolytic solution.

Forms of prebake

third-person singular presentprebakes
present participleprebaking
past participleprebaked
pastprebaked

Origin of prebake

From pre- + bake.

Questions about prebake

What does prebake mean?
Prebake means to bake (a crust, an industrial compound, etc.) in advance.
What part of speech is prebake?
Prebake can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of prebake?
The past tense of prebake is prebaked.

Words near prebake in the dictionary

  1. prebagged
  2. prebait
  3. prebaited
  4. prebaiting
  5. prebaits
  6. prebake
  7. prebaked
  8. prebakes
  9. prebaking
  10. preball
  11. preballet

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