Meaning & use
Prepended
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Added something to the beginning of a piece of text, data, or a sequence.
See it in a sentence
The script prepended a timestamp to every line of the log file.
Developers prepended an underscore to mark the variable as private.
A note on using this word
Common in computer programming as the opposite of 'append', which adds to the end rather than the beginning.
Words with a similar meaning
prefixed
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Words with an opposite meaning
appended
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