hard-wired behavior, or behavior that a dog's genetics have preprogrammed him to do
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Preprogram
Synonyms for "preprogram"
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4 translations across 3 languages.
Dutch
2 entries- voorprogrammeren verb (program something in advance)
- voorprogrammeren verb (predispose to certain thoughts or behaviours)
German
1 entries- vorprogrammieren verb (program something in advance)
Italian
1 entries- preprogrammare verb (program something in advance)
Sample sentences
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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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