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Past tense of reenter

regular verb

The past tense of reenter is reentered. The past participle is also reentered.

Forms of reenter

Base form (V1)reenter
Past tense (V2)reentered
Past participle (V3)reentered
Present participlereentering
Third person singularreenters

Reentered in a sentence

  • The shuttle reentered the atmosphere.
  • But when officers finally reentered the building about 2 A.M., they found no one.1995 July 5, Norimitsu Onishi, “Tenement Is Briefly Seized In East Village”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Dec...
  • Moving deliberately, the fish gave one smooth dolphinesque leap, spit out the hook, and reentered the water without a splash.1987, John Treadwell Nichols, A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country: Text and Photographs From His Life and Work, Salt Lake…. From the entry dolphinesque
  • But Wang Hai-yang, pursued by Fang Yao's Kwangtung provincial troops, reentered Fukien and laid siege to Yung-ting on May 15th.1973, Jen Yu-wen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 540–541. From the entry Yung-ting

Meaning of reenter

  1. verb To enter again; return into.
  2. verb To enter again; retype, reinput.
  3. verb To cut deeper where the aqua fortis has not bitten sufficiently.

Full definition of reenter

Questions about the past tense of reenter

What is the past tense of reenter?
The past tense of reenter is reentered.
What is the past participle of reenter?
The past participle of reenter is reentered.
Is reenter a regular or irregular verb?
Reenter is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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