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prepainting

prepainting is the present participle and gerund of prepaint.

Meaning of prepaint

Verb

prepaint (third-person singular simple present prepaints, present participle prepainting, simple past and past participle prepainted)

  1. To paint in advance.
    • Naturally, some forming operations will damage the prepainted finish […]1967, Charles A Harper, Handbook of plastics and elastomers

Questions about prepainting

What is prepainting the present participle and gerund of?
Prepainting is the present participle and gerund of prepaint.

Words near prepainting in the dictionary

  1. prepaids
  2. prepain
  3. prepainful
  4. prepaint
  5. prepainted
  6. prepainting
  7. prepaints
  8. prepalatal
  9. prepaleolithic
  10. prepandemic
  11. prepanic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prepainting (page history and authors); prepaint (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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