preen
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～ pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
preen
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～ clean with one's bill; "The birds preened"
preen
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～ dress or groom with elaborate care; "She likes to dress when going to the opera"
preexist
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～ exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time; "Did this condition pre-exist?"
prefabricate
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～ to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings
prefabricate
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～ produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally
preface
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～ furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"
prefer
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～ promote over another; "he favors his second daughter"
prefer
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～ like better; value more highly; "Some people prefer camping to staying in hotels"; "We prefer sleeping outside"
prefer
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～ select as an alternative over another; "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast"
prefer
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～ give preference to one creditor over another
prefigure
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～ imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured"
prefigure
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～ indicate, as with a sign or an omen; "These signs bode bad news"
prefix
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～ attach a prefix to; "prefixed words"
preform
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～ form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand
preform
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～ form into a shape resembling the final, desired one
preheat
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～ heat beforehand; "Preheat the oven!"
prehend
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～ take hold of; grab; "The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals"