re-examine

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Etymology

From re- +‎ examine.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rē′ĭg-zămĭn[1]
  • (conservative Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌɹiː.ɪɡˈzæm.ɪn/
    (contemporary Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɹiː.ɪɡˈzam.ɪn/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌɹi.ɪɡˈzæm.ɪn/
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  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˌɹiː.əɡˈzɛm.ən/
  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˌɹi.ɪɡˈzam.ɪn/
  • (India) IPA(key): /ˌɾiː.ɪɡˈzam.ɪn/
  • Rhymes: -æmɪn
  • Hyphenation: re-ex‧am‧ine[1]

Verb

re-examine (third-person singular simple present re-examines, present participle re-examining, simple past and past participle re-examined)

  1. (transitive) To examine again.[1]
    Hypernym: examine
    • 2008 December 7, David Samuels, “Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs”, in The New Yorker:
      Making long cross-country drives, Coster-Mullen said, had given him plenty of time to reëxamine the three-dimensional diagram of the bomb that he keeps in his head, like a Buddhist monk contemplating the Karmic wheel.
    • 2012 December 2, Mohhamad Reza Kiani, Relativity Reexamined, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 34:
      Let us now reexamine our quantum and relativity conditions (3.3) and (3.4).
    • 2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, “Guest Columnist”, in Rail, page 52:
      These questions are re-examined by senior management at key stages throughout the project (often known as gateways) at which a decision might be made be modify or even abort a project rather than waste any more money.
  2. (transitive, chiefly British) To question a witness in redirect examination.[1]

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