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REEXAMINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reexamine mean? 

REEXAMINE (verb)
  The verb REEXAMINE has 1 sense:

1. look at again; examine againplay

  Familiarity information: REEXAMINE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REEXAMINE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they reexamine  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it reexamines  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: reexamined  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: reexamined  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: reexamining  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Look at again; examine again

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

reexamine; review

Context example:

let's review your situation

Hypernyms (to "reexamine" is one way to...):

analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reexamination (a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment)


 Context examples 


A survey of more than 170,000 supermassive black holes, using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has astronomers reexamining a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these interstellar objects.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)

Sometimes being uprooted can be positive, for it makes us reexamine our decisions and allows us either to passionately  recommit to our original goals or leave them and make new ones.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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