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re-file

re-file is the alternative form of refile.

Meaning of refile

Verb

refile (third-person singular simple present refiles, present participle refiling, simple past and past participle refiled)

  1. (transitive) To file again or differently.
    • Let's refile those papers under Miscellaneous.

Forms of re-file

third-person singular presentre-files
present participlere-filing
past participlere-filed
pastre-filed

Questions about re-file

What is re-file the alternative form of?
Re-file is the alternative form of refile.

Words near re-file in the dictionary

  1. re-extends
  2. re-ferment
  3. re-fermented
  4. re-fermenting
  5. re-ferments
  6. re-file
  7. re-form
  8. re-formation
  9. re-formations
  10. re-formed
  11. re-forming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-file (page history and authors); refile (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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