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Pregravate
- - To bear down; to depress.
Pregustant
- - Tasting beforehand; having a foretaste.
Preheating
- verb - heat beforehand; "Preheat the oven!"
Prehending
- verb - 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"
Prehensile
- adjective - adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"
- having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
- immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
Prehension
- noun - the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
Prehensors
- noun - the anterior pair of legs of a centipede that are modified to seize prey and inject venom from the toxicognaths
Prehensory
- - Adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile.
Prehistory
- noun - the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word
Preisolate
- verb - isolate beforehand