REBORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reborn mean? 

• REBORN (adjective)
  The adjective REBORN has 2 senses:

1. spiritually reborn or converted

2. restored to new life and vigor

  Familiarity information: REBORN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REBORN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spiritually reborn or converted

Synonyms:

born-again; reborn

Context example:

a born-again Christian

Similar:

regenerate (reformed spiritually or morally)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Restored to new life and vigor

Synonyms:

reborn; revitalised; revitalized

Context example:

Berlin has been reborn after probably the most intense period of construction since the post-war period.

Similar:

revived (restored to consciousness or life or vigor)

 Context examples 

All the old fire and passion with which he had written it were reborn in him, and he was swayed and swept away so that he was blind and deaf to the faults of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Previous detections of clouds by Hubble at the boundary between day and night, where temperatures mercifully fall, have shown that titanium oxide (popular as a sunscreen) and aluminum oxide (the basis for ruby, the gemstone) could also be molecularly reborn on the ultrahot Jupiters' nightsides.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)