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Preferring
- verb - give preference to one creditor over another
- like better; value more highly; "Some people prefer camping to staying in hotels"; "We prefer sleeping outside"
- promote over another; "he favors his second daughter"
- 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"
Prefixxing
- verb - attach a prefix to; "prefixed words"
Preforming
- verb - form into a shape resembling the final, desired one
- form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand
Preglacial
- - Prior to the glacial or drift period.
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)
Prejudging
- verb - judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence