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Pressor
- adjective - any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure
- increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure; "pressor reflexes"
Prester
- - A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.
Preston
- unknown - Administrative capital of the County of Lancashire, England.
Presume
- verb - constitute reasonable evidence for; "A restaurant bill presumes the consumption of food"
- take liberties or act with too much confidence
- take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late"
- take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission;
Preteen
- adjective - a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age); "little league is intended for the preteens"
- of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12; "a preteen party"; "preteen clothing"
Pretend
- adjective - behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"
- imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
- make believe with the intent to deceive;
- put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King"
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"
- state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"
- the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend"
Preter-
- - A prefix signifying past, by, beyond, more than; as, preter- mission, a permitting to go by; preternatural, beyond or more than is natural.
PRETERM
- unknown - Born prematurely
Pretext
- noun - an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
- something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
Pretors
- noun - an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic