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re-arrest

re-arrest is the alternative form of rearrest.

Meaning of rearrest

Verb

rearrest (third-person singular simple present rearrests, present participle rearresting, simple past and past participle rearrested)

  1. To arrest again.
    • The police rearrested the suspect after finding new evidence linking him to the crime.

See all 2 meanings of rearrest

Forms of re-arrest

third-person singular presentre-arrests
present participlere-arresting
past participlere-arrested
pastre-arrested

Questions about re-arrest

What is re-arrest the alternative form of?
Re-arrest is the alternative form of rearrest.

Words near re-arrest in the dictionary

  1. re-arranged
  2. re-arrangement
  3. re-arrangements
  4. re-arranges
  5. re-arranging
  6. re-arrest
  7. re-arrested
  8. re-arresting
  9. re-arrests
  10. re-assess
  11. re-assessed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-arrest (page history and authors); rearrest (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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