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re-appear

re-appear is the alternative form of reappear.

Meaning of reappear

Verb

reappear (third-person singular simple present reappears, present participle reappearing, simple past and past participle reappeared)

  1. To appear again.
    • After the slumber of the year / The woodland violets re-appear, / All things revive in field or grove, […]a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To ——”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt...

Forms of re-appear

third-person singular presentre-appears
present participlere-appearing
past participlere-appeared
pastre-appeared

Questions about re-appear

What is re-appear the alternative form of?
Re-appear is the alternative form of reappear.

Words near re-appear in the dictionary

  1. re-animate
  2. re-animated
  3. re-animates
  4. re-animating
  5. re-animation
  6. re-appear
  7. re-appearance
  8. re-appearances
  9. re-appeared
  10. re-appearing
  11. re-appears

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-appear (page history and authors); reappear (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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