will prefix
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future tenseof prefix.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
prefixnounan affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.
Example Sentences
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“Perhaps, miss,” I exclaimed, with nothing more than reasonable anger, “the next time you mention that gentleman’s name you will prefix the Monsieur.”
From A Fluttered Dovecote by George Manville Fenn
I will prefix a few elemental facts which he has neglected and then will let him have his say.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant Martin Overton
Once in a way a man will prefix his wife's name to his own, and there is one on record who prefixed his own to his wife's.
From The Living Present by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The legislator will teach as well as command; and with this view he will prefix preambles to his principal laws.
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett