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prewarm

prewarm verb: to warm in advance.

Verb

prewarm (third-person singular simple present prewarms, present participle prewarming, simple past and past participle prewarmed)

  1. (transitive) To warm in advance.
  2. To initialize with the illusion of prior activity.

Forms of prewarm

third-person singular presentprewarms
present participleprewarming
past participleprewarmed
pastprewarmed

Origin of prewarm

From pre- + warm.

Questions about prewarm

What does prewarm mean?
Prewarm means to warm in advance.
What part of speech is prewarm?
Prewarm is a verb.
What is the past tense of prewarm?
The past tense of prewarm is prewarmed.

Words near prewarm in the dictionary

  1. prevuing
  2. Prew
  3. prewait
  4. prewandering
  5. prewar
  6. prewarm
  7. prewarmed
  8. prewarming
  9. prewarms
  10. prewarn
  11. prewarned

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