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prewinding

prewinding is the present participle and gerund of prewind.

Meaning of prewind

Verb

prewind (third-person singular simple present prewinds, present participle prewinding, simple past and past participle prewound)

  1. (transitive) To wind in advance.
    • The wire was prewound around the spools.

Questions about prewinding

What is prewinding the present participle and gerund of?
Prewinding is the present participle and gerund of prewind.

Words near prewinding in the dictionary

  1. prewhitened
  2. prewhitening
  3. prewhitens
  4. prewillingness
  5. prewind
  6. prewinding
  7. prewinds
  8. prewinter
  9. prewire
  10. prewired
  11. prewireless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prewinding (page history and authors); prewind (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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