preprogram
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[edit]preprogram (third-person singular simple present preprograms, present participle preprogramming or preprograming, simple past and past participle preprogrammed or preprogramed) (transitive)
- To program something in advance.
- To predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours.
- hard-wired behavior, or behavior that a dog's genetics have preprogrammed him to do
- 2007, Robin McKinley, Dragonhaven, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 149:
- But while Lois getting it that the entire cottage was a no-go area might mean that she was preprogrammed by thousands of years of dragons raising their dragonlets in dens, I wondered if that was all it was.
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[edit]program something in advance
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predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours