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re-check

re-check is the alternative form of recheck.

Meaning of recheck

Verb

recheck (third-person singular simple present rechecks, present participle rechecking, simple past and past participle rechecked)

  1. (ambitransitive) To check again.
    • The second strategy consists of continuously rechecking for pending softirqs.2005, Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati, Understanding the Linux Kernel

See all 2 meanings of recheck

Forms of re-check

Verb
third-person singular presentre-checks
present participlere-checking
past participlere-checked
pastre-checked
Noun
pluralre-checks

Questions about re-check

What is re-check the alternative form of?
Re-check is the alternative form of recheck.

Words near re-check in the dictionary

  1. re-capitulations
  2. re-cement
  3. re-cemented
  4. re-cementing
  5. re-cements
  6. re-check
  7. re-checked
  8. re-checking
  9. re-checks
  10. re-Christianize
  11. re-Christianized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-check (page history and authors); recheck (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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