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prelight

prelight verb: to illuminate in advance.

Verb

prelight (third-person singular simple present prelights, present participle prelighting, simple past and past participle prelit or prelighted)

  1. (transitive) To illuminate in advance.

Forms of prelight

third-person singular presentprelights
present participleprelighting
past participleprelit
pastprelit
past participleprelighted
pastprelighted

Origin of prelight

From pre- + light.

Questions about prelight

What does prelight mean?
Prelight means to illuminate in advance.
What part of speech is prelight?
Prelight is a verb.
What is the past tense of prelight?
The past tense of prelight is prelit.

Words near prelight in the dictionary

  1. prelicensing
  2. prelicensure
  3. prelicked
  4. prelife
  5. preligamentous
  6. prelight
  7. prelighted
  8. prelighting
  9. prelights
  10. prelim
  11. prelimbic

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