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re-adapt

re-adapt is the alternative form of readapt.

Meaning of readapt

Verb

readapt (third-person singular simple present readapts, present participle readapting, simple past and past participle readapted)

  1. To adapt again; to adapt for a new purpose
    • We readapted the practice of adding eggs to the recipe.

Forms of re-adapt

third-person singular presentre-adapts
present participlere-adapting
past participlere-adapted
pastre-adapted

Questions about re-adapt

What is re-adapt the alternative form of?
Re-adapt is the alternative form of readapt.

Words near re-adapt in the dictionary

  1. re-act
  2. re-activate
  3. re-activated
  4. re-activates
  5. re-activating
  6. re-adapt
  7. re-adapted
  8. re-adapting
  9. re-adapts
  10. re-add
  11. re-added

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-adapt (page history and authors); readapt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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