A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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The ubiquity of “Design” has rendered itself in many forms, prefixing and suffixing subjects including graphic, product, industrial, computer, systems, architecture, community, environments, molecules, and more.
From Forbes ● Oct. 10, 2012
Ever since Hollywood started prefixing adaptations of the Bard's work with "William Shakespeare's", authorial provenance has inflicted some unsightly vandalism on film titles.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2010
In fact, any game may be termed a rig, racket, suit, slum, etc. by prefixing thereto the particular branch of depredation or fraud in question.
From Time Magazine Archive
Teach them never to speak of grown people without prefixing "Mr."
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
The names were coined by prefixing Greek numerals to -gynia used for gynœcium, and changed into adjectives in the form of -gynous.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
