pre-existingadjective
uk/ˌpriː.ɪɡˈzɪs.tɪŋ/us/ˌpriː.ɪɡˈzɪs.tɪŋ/existing before something else:
The drug should be used with caution in patients with pre-existing cardiac disease.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Existing and being
- account for sth
- alive
- am
- are
- be
- come
- existent
- extant
- go
- go back
- have legs idiom
- hood
- languish
- leg
- lie
- lie in sth
- live
- lurk
- run
- stalk
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