re-examine
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- enPR: rē′ĭg-zăm′ĭn[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)
- (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.
- (transitive, chiefly British) To question a witness in redirect examination.[1]
Derived terms
Translations
to examine again
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “reexamine”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- “re-examine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.