REKINDLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rekindle mean? 

• REKINDLE (verb)
  The verb REKINDLE has 2 senses:

1. kindle anew, as of a fire

2. arouse again

  Familiarity information: REKINDLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REKINDLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rekindle    ... he / she / it rekindles   
Past simple: rekindled   
Past participle: rekindled   
-ing form: rekindling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Kindle anew, as of a fire

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

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

conflagrate; enkindle; inflame; kindle (cause to start burning)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arouse again

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

rekindle her love

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

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

It was done completely; not a remnant of light in the wick could give hope to the rekindling breath.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Having rekindled the fire, she thought she would go to market while the water heated.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was at first touched by the expressions of his misery; yet, when I called to mind what Frankenstein had said of his powers of eloquence and persuasion, and when I again cast my eyes on the lifeless form of my friend, indignation was rekindled within me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

So saying, he stepped back a little way, till he was out of earshot, and there sat down upon a tree-stump and began to whistle, spinning round now and again upon his seat so as to command a sight, sometimes of me and the doctor and sometimes of his unruly ruffians as they went to and fro in the sand between the fire—which they were busy rekindling—and the house, from which they brought forth pork and bread to make the breakfast.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)