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If someone p_____ a bomb or a gun, they prepare it so that it is ready to explode or fire .If someone primes a bomb or a gun, they prepare it so that it is ready to explode or fire .He was priming the bomb to go off in an hour's time.Tom keeps a primed 10-foot shotgun in his office. adjectiveYou use prime to describe something that is most important in a situation .Political stability, meanwhile, will be a prime concern.It could be a prime target for guerrilla attack.The police will see me as the prime suspect!She is the prime candidate to take over his job.You use prime to describe something that is of the best possible quality.It was one of the City's prime sites, near the Stock Exchange.You use prime to describe an example of a particular kind of thing that is absolutely typical .Marianne North was a prime example of Victorian womanhood of the more adventurous kind.nounIf someone or something is in their prime, they are at the stage in their existence when they are at their strongest, most active, or most successful .Maybe I'm just coming into my prime now.She was in her intellectual prime.We've had a series of athletes trying to come back well past their prime....young persons in the prime of life.verbIf you prime someone to do something, you prepare them to do it, for example by giving them information about it beforehand.Claire wished she'd primed Sarah beforehand.Arnold primed her for her duties.The press corps was primed to leap to the defense of the fired officials.If someone primes a bomb or a gun, they prepare it so that it is ready to explode or fire .He was priming the bomb to go off in an hour's time.Tom keeps a primed 10-foot shotgun in his office. B2

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prime primesprimingprimed

query	If someone p_____ a bomb or a gun, they prepare it so that it is ready to explode or fire .If someone primes a bomb or a gun, they prepare it so that it is ready to explode or fire . He was priming the bomb to go off in an hour's time. Tom keeps a primed 10-foot shotgun in his office.
word	prime
full-definition	adjective You use prime to describe something that is most important in a situation . Political stability, meanwhile, will be a prime concern. It could be a prime target for guerrilla attack. The police will see me as the prime suspect! She is the prime candidate to take over his job. You use prime to describe something that is of the best possible quality. It was one of the City's prime sites, near the Stock Exchange. You use prime to describe an example of a particular kind of thing that is absolutely typical . Marianne North was a prime example of Victorian womanhood of the more adventurous kind. noun If someone or something is in their prime, they are at the stage in their existence when they are at their strongest, most active, or most successful . Maybe I'm just coming into my prime now. She was in her intellectual prime. We've had a series of athletes trying to come back well past their prime. ...young persons in the prime of life. verb If you prime someone to do something, you prepare them to do it, for example by giving them information about it beforehand. Claire wished she'd primed Sarah beforehand. Arnold primed her for her duties. The press corps was primed to leap to the defense of the fired officials. If someone primes a bomb or a gun, they prepare it so that it is ready to explode or fire . He was priming the bomb to go off in an hour's time. Tom keeps a primed 10-foot shotgun in his office.
inflections	primesprimingprimed
cefr-level	B2

Prime Primed Bomb Prepare Gun Ready Explode Fire