preexisting

Describes something that exists before a particular event or point in time.

• 🇫🇷Qualifie ce qui existait déjà avant un événement ou un moment donné.

1. Existing before B2 formal

   Something that already exists before a particular event, situation, or time.

   • The patient had a preexisting condition that complicated the surgery.
   • The contract covers only new work, not preexisting obligations.
   • The preexisting rules were updated to reflect modern practices.

   🇫🇷préexistant

   Synonymes: antecedentprecedingpreviousprior

   Antonymes: followingnewresultantsubsequent

• more preexisting comparative form
• most preexisting superlative form

A verb used to indicate the act of existing before something else in time or sequence.

• 🇫🇷Verbe utilisé pour désigner l'action d'exister avant quelque chose d'autre dans le temps ou dans une séquence.

1. Exist beforehand C1 formal

   To exist before a particular event or point in time.

   • The ancient ruins preexist the modern city by thousands of years.
   • Many of these traditions preexist the written records.
   • The condition must have preexisted the accident for the claim to be denied.

   🇫🇷exister antérieurement

   Synonymes: antedateprecedepredate

• preexisted past participle
• preexisted past simple
• preexisting present participle
• preexists third person singular