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preshape

preshape verb: to shape in advance.

Verb

preshape (third-person singular simple present preshapes, present participle preshaping, simple past and past participle preshaped)

  1. (transitive) To shape in advance.
    • In “Burger Bar” (Wiley, 2009), Hubert Keller writes that what you do not want is preshaped burgers or meat that is stuffed and compacted into plastic packaging.2009 July 1, Jane Sigal, “The Perfect Burger and All Its Parts”, in New York Times

Forms of preshape

third-person singular presentpreshapes
present participlepreshaping
past participlepreshaped
pastpreshaped

Origin of preshape

From pre- + shape.

Questions about preshape

What does preshape mean?
Preshape means to shape in advance.
What part of speech is preshape?
Preshape is a verb.
What is the past tense of preshape?
The past tense of preshape is preshaped.

Words near preshape in the dictionary

  1. presh
  2. preshadow
  3. preshadowed
  4. preshadowing
  5. preshadows
  6. preshape
  7. preshaped
  8. preshapes
  9. preshaping
  10. preshared
  11. presharpen

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