Meaning

1 senses

  1. To give something a treatment prior to another operation.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. On clothing, pretreat sticky spots with a stain remover before washing.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

pretreats, pretreating, pretreated, pretreated
Base formpretreat · to pretreat
3rd person singularpretreats
Present participlepretreating
Past simplepretreated
Past participlepretreated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypretreat
he, she, itpretreats

Past simpleLesson

all personspretreated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pretreated
he, she, ithas pretreated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pretreat

Word family

2 related words
Relatedpretreatedpretreatment

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
preteritepretextprettyA1
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