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re-enter

re-enter is the alternative form of reenter.

Meaning of reenter

Verb

reenter (third-person singular simple present reenters, present participle reentering, simple past and past participle reentered)

  1. (ambitransitive) To enter again; return into.
    • The shuttle reentered the atmosphere.
  2. (transitive) To enter again; retype, reinput.
    • We had to reenter a day's worth of data into the system.
  3. (ambitransitive) To cut deeper where the aqua fortis has not bitten sufficiently.

Forms of re-enter

third-person singular presentre-enters
present participlere-entering
past participlere-entered
pastre-entered

Words that rhyme with re-enter

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Questions about re-enter

What is re-enter the alternative form of?
Re-enter is the alternative form of reenter.

Words near re-enter in the dictionary

  1. re-enlisting
  2. re-enlistment
  3. re-enlistments
  4. re-enlists
  5. re-enrol
  6. re-enter
  7. re-entered
  8. re-entering
  9. re-enters
  10. re-enthrone
  11. re-entrable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-enter (page history and authors); reenter (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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