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re-read

re-read is the alternative form of reread.

Meaning of reread

Verb

reread (third-person singular simple present rereads, present participle rereading, simple past and past participle reread)

  1. To read again.
  2. To read or interpret in a new way.
    • My first book, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (Seymour 2013), has further contributed to the development of queer ecology, rereading well-known contemporary queer novels and films as environmental polemics and theorizing why such reaadings have not been...2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 23

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Forms of re-read

present participlere-reads
pastre-reading
past participlere-read

Questions about re-read

What is re-read the alternative form of?
Re-read is the alternative form of reread.

Words near re-read in the dictionary

  1. re-ratified
  2. re-ratifies
  3. re-ratify
  4. re-ratifying
  5. re-re-opening
  6. re-read
  7. re-reading
  8. re-reads
  9. re-recognition
  10. re-record
  11. re-recorded

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