REOPEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reopen mean? 

• REOPEN (verb)
  The verb REOPEN has 1 sense:

1. open again or anew

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REOPEN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reopen    ... he / she / it reopens   
Past simple: reopened   
Past participle: reopened   
-ing form: reopening   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Open again or anew

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

They reopened the theater

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

open; open up (cause to open or to become open)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They want to reopen the doors

 Context examples 

I threw open the window, reopening by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in the bedroom that morning.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Everything is, however, now reopened; and what is to be the end God only knows.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Alda-1 binds to the defective enzyme in a way that effectively reopens the catalytic tunnel and thus allows the enzyme to metabolize acetaldehyde.

(Alcohol Could be Toxic and Cause DNA Damage for Some People, NIH, US)

“You have come to see Lord Nelson. He bid me say that he would be with you in an instant. You have doubtless heard that hostilities are about to reopen?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his gigantic client.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had: that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound might act detrimentally on Jonathan.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)