to prewarm
5.0
Heat something before you use it
- verb
- /priːwɔrm/
:
precalentar
- To ensure a hot meal, be sure to prewarm the oven before placing the dish inside.
Examples
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If you prewarm the soup with hot water, it will stay hot longer in the thermos.
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Use relatively thin cuts and prewarm them to reduce the time during which the outer portions are overcooked.
Academic text (1999) -
It's best to prewarm the grill before cooking to achieve even heat distribution.
Synonyms
to preheat
vsto prewarm
35
2.1
To heat an oven or pan to the right temperature before you cook
is broader, heating various things in advance not only appliances
to warm up
vsto prewarm
19
2.4
Run an engine a short time so it works properly
is about heating something beforehand rather than running it to work
to preheat the oven
vsto prewarm
7
1.0
Make the oven hot to the right temperature before you cook
is more general, used for heating objects in advance not just ovens
Antonyms
How Warm
Surface Forms
prewarm infinitive
prewarmed past
prewarmed past participle
prewarming present participle
prewarms third person singular
Morphology
Etymology
Prewarm is made of the parts pre- meaning 'before' and warm, so it means to make something warm 'before' you use it. Think of preheat, like heating an oven or warming your gloves a few minutes before you go outside.