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preheats

preheats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of preheat.

Meaning of preheat

Verb

preheat (third-person singular simple present preheats, present participle preheating, simple past and past participle preheated)

  1. (transitive) To heat beforehand or in advance, to heat something in preparation for further action.
    • to preheat the oven for the casserole
    Synonyms:
    foreheat

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Questions about preheats

What is preheats the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Preheats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of preheat.

Words near preheats in the dictionary

  1. preheatable
  2. preheated
  3. preheater
  4. preheaters
  5. preheating
  6. preheats
  7. Preheim
  8. prehellenic
  9. preheminence
  10. prehemiplegic
  11. prehemorrhagic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preheats (page history and authors); preheat (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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