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prewrote

prewrote is the simple past 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 prewrote

What is prewrote the simple past of?
Prewrote is the simple past of prewrite.

Words near prewrote in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prewrote (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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