Usually means: Prepare or treat in advance.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word pretreat:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. pretreat: Merriam-Webster
  2. pretreat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pretreat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pretreat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pretreat: Wordnik
  6. pretreat: Wiktionary
  7. pretreat: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. pretreat: Dictionary.com
  9. pretreat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pretreat: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pretreat: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pretreat)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To give something a treatment prior to another operation.

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pre-treat, premedicate, preimmunize, predilate, prevascularize, preplant, put ahead, pre-incubate, precondition, preprocess, more...

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pre-treat, premedicate, preimmunize, predilate, prevascularize, preplant, put ahead, pre-incubate, precondition, preprocess, more...



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