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pretreated

pretreated is the simple past and past participle of pretreat.

Meaning of pretreat

Verb

pretreat (third-person singular simple present pretreats, present participle pretreating, simple past and past participle pretreated)

  1. (transitive) To give something a treatment prior to another operation.

Adjective

pretreated (comparative more pretreated, superlative most pretreated)

  1. That has been subject to pretreatment.

Forms of pretreated

comparativemore pretreated
superlativemost pretreated

Words formed from pretreated

Questions about pretreated

What does pretreated mean?
Pretreated means that has been subject to pretreatment.
What is pretreated the simple past and past participle of?
Pretreated is the simple past and past participle of pretreat.
What part of speech is pretreated?
Pretreated is an adjective.

Words near pretreated in the dictionary

  1. pretransverse
  2. pretraumatic
  3. pretravel
  4. pretreat
  5. pretreatable
  6. pretreated
  7. pretreating
  8. pretreatment
  9. pretreatments
  10. pretreats
  11. pretreaty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pretreated (page history and authors); pretreat (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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