Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to preapologize
Participle: preapologized
Gerund: preapologizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | preapologize |
| you | preapologize |
| he;she;it | preapologizes |
| we | preapologize |
| you | preapologize |
| they | preapologize |
Perfect
| I | have preapologized |
| you | have preapologized |
| he;she;it | has preapologized |
| we | have preapologized |
| you | have preapologized |
| they | have preapologized |
Past
| I | preapologized |
| you | preapologized |
| he;she;it | preapologized |
| we | preapologized |
| you | preapologized |
| they | preapologized |
Pluperfect
| I | had preapologized |
| you | had preapologized |
| he;she;it | had preapologized |
| we | had preapologized |
| you | had preapologized |
| they | had preapologized |
Future
| I | will preapologize |
| you | will preapologize |
| he;she;it | will preapologize |
| we | will preapologize |
| you | will preapologize |
| they | will preapologize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have preapologized |
| you | will have preapologized |
| he;she;it | will have preapologized |
| we | will have preapologized |
| you | will have preapologized |
| they | will have preapologized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | preapologize |
| you | preapologize |
| he;she;it | preapologize |
| we | preapologize |
| you | preapologize |
| they | preapologize |
Perfect
| I | have preapologized |
| you | have preapologized |
| he;she;it | have preapologized |
| we | have preapologized |
| you | have preapologized |
| they | have preapologized |
Imperfect
| I | preapologized |
| you | preapologized |
| he;she;it | preapologized |
| we | preapologized |
| you | preapologized |
| they | preapologized |
Pluperfect
| I | had preapologized |
| you | had preapologized |
| he;she;it | had preapologized |
| we | had preapologized |
| you | had preapologized |
| they | had preapologized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would preapologize |
| you | would preapologize |
| he;she;it | would preapologize |
| we | would preapologize |
| you | would preapologize |
| they | would preapologize |
Perfect
| I | would have preapologized |
| you | would have preapologized |
| he;she;it | would have preapologized |
| we | would have preapologized |
| you | would have preapologized |
| they | would have preapologized |
Imperative
| you | preapologize |
| we | Let's preapologize |
| you | preapologize |
Verbs conjugated like 'preapologize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'preapologize'
reapologize,
apologize,
prologize,
pseudologize,
retopologize,
tropologize,
apologise,
epilogize,
geologize,
haplologize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From pre- + apologize.
Sample Sentences
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Newman was so ashamed of the film, he took out an ad in the Los Angeles Times to pre-apologize to television viewers on the eve of its late-night showing. [1989 Oct, Robert Cetti Jr, “Detour: What Drives Paul Newman?”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 72:]
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The second example, a cartoon, shows a husband announcing to his wife, that he wants to pre-apologize before going out for the evening. Despite the humor involved in the idea of “pre-apologizing,” I do not believe that a person can meaningfully apologize before the event. [2004, Aaron Lazare, On Apology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171:]