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pregrill

pregrill verb: to grill (food) in advance.

Verb

pregrill (third-person singular simple present pregrills, present participle pregrilling, simple past and past participle pregrilled)

  1. (transitive) To grill (food) in advance.
    • The restaurant uses pregrilled chicken to save time.

Forms of pregrill

third-person singular presentpregrills
present participlepregrilling
past participlepregrilled
pastpregrilled

Origin of pregrill

From pre- + grill.

Questions about pregrill

What does pregrill mean?
Pregrill means to grill (food) in advance.
What part of speech is pregrill?
Pregrill is a verb.
What is the past tense of pregrill?
The past tense of pregrill is pregrilled.

Words near pregrill in the dictionary

  1. pregrease
  2. pregreased
  3. pregreases
  4. pregreasing
  5. pregrievance
  6. pregrill
  7. pregrilled
  8. pregrilling
  9. pregrind
  10. pregrinding
  11. pregrinds

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