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prewritten

prewritten is the past participle of prewrite.

Meaning of prewrite

Verb

prewrite (third-person singular simple present prewrites, present participle prewriting, simple past prewrote, past participle prewritten)

  1. (transitive) To make a first draft of ideas and format for an essay, thesis, article, or book as a plan for the actual writing.
    • Some students, due to anxiety, skip the most important first step, which is to prewrite the thesis, and jump into the middle of the project, which is a fatal error.

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Questions about prewritten

What is prewritten the past participle of?
Prewritten is the past participle of prewrite.

Words near prewritten in the dictionary

  1. prewriter
  2. prewriters
  3. prewrites
  4. prewriting
  5. prewritings
  6. prewritten
  7. prewrote
  8. Prews
  9. prex
  10. prexactly
  11. prexes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prewritten (page history and authors); prewrite (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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