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re-gift

re-gift is the alternative form of regift.

Meaning of regift

Verb

regift (third-person singular simple present regifts, present participle regifting, simple past and past participle regifted)

  1. (ditransitive, informal) To give something as a gift which the giver previously received as a gift; to give to a person something previously received as a gift.
    • Be upfront when giving the re-gifted item.2007, Sue Fox, Etiquette for Dummies, page 252

See all 2 meanings of regift

Forms of re-gift

third-person singular presentre-gifts
present participlere-gifting
past participlere-gifted
pastre-gifted

Questions about re-gift

What is re-gift the alternative form of?
Re-gift is the alternative form of regift.

Words near re-gift in the dictionary

  1. re-gays
  2. re-gear
  3. re-geared
  4. re-gearing
  5. re-gears
  6. re-gift
  7. re-gifted
  8. re-gifting
  9. re-gifts
  10. re-gram
  11. re-grammed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-gift (page history and authors); regift (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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