prebunked
prebunked is the simple past and past participle of prebunk.
Meaning of prebunk
Verb
prebunk (third-person singular simple present prebunks, present participle prebunking, simple past and past participle prebunked)
- To counter potential misinformation by warning people against it before it is disseminated.
- They predicted that the warning would work by “pre-bunking” the false information that may come someone's way (rather than debunking it afterward). […] However, if the fake petition was “pre-bunked” with a vaccine, subjects held on to their higher estimation of a scientific consensus.2017 February 12, Sean Greene, “Fake news may be vulnerable to ‘vaccination’ Experiment shows that ‘pre-bunking’ can offset false information”, in Baltimore Sun, page A 6
Questions about prebunked
- What is prebunked the simple past and past participle of?
- Prebunked is the simple past and past participle of prebunk.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: prebunked (page history and authors); prebunk (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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