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prefinished

prefinished is the simple past and past participle of prefinish.

Meaning of prefinish

Verb

prefinish (third-person singular simple present prefinishes, present participle prefinishing, simple past and past participle prefinished)

  1. (transitive) To apply a preliminary finish to.

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Adjective

prefinished (not comparable)

  1. Given a finish at the time of manufacture.
    • A listing of renovation tips with an article last Sunday about brokers who advise owners to keep resale in mind when renovating their apartments referred incompletely to the life span of prefinished floors.2008 June 8, Teri Karush Rogers, “Renovation Tips”, in New York Times

Questions about prefinished

What does prefinished mean?
Prefinished means given a finish at the time of manufacture.
What is prefinished the simple past and past participle of?
Prefinished is the simple past and past participle of prefinish.
What part of speech is prefinished?
Prefinished is an adjective.

Words near prefinished in the dictionary

  1. prefine
  2. prefined
  3. prefines
  4. prefining
  5. prefinish
  6. prefinished
  7. prefinishes
  8. prefinishing
  9. prefinite
  10. prefinition
  11. prefinitions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prefinished (page history and authors); prefinish (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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