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re-group

re-group is the alternative form of regroup.

Meaning of regroup

Verb

regroup (third-person singular simple present regroups, present participle regrouping, simple past and past participle regrouped)

  1. (intransitive) To pause and become organized again.
    • As half-time approached with Everton desperate to get into the dressing room and regroup, Liverpool were awarded a penalty for Jagielka's rash challenge on Suarez. This time there was no disputing Atkinson's decision, but Howard rescued Everton by diving low to his left to keep out Kuyt's spot-kick.2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
  2. (transitive) To group or categorize again.
  3. (intransitive) To reform as a group.

See all 4 meanings of regroup

Forms of re-group

third-person singular presentre-groups
present participlere-grouping
past participlere-grouped
pastre-grouped

Questions about re-group

What is re-group the alternative form of?
Re-group is the alternative form of regroup.

Words near re-group in the dictionary

  1. re-gifts
  2. re-gram
  3. re-grammed
  4. re-gramming
  5. re-grams
  6. re-group
  7. re-grouped
  8. re-grouping
  9. re-groups
  10. re-hair
  11. re-haired

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-group (page history and authors); regroup (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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