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re-sniff

re-sniff is the alternative form of resniff.

Meaning of resniff

Verb

resniff (third-person singular simple present resniffs, present participle resniffing, simple past and past participle resniffed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To sniff again.
    • This apparently left the Colonial Office unmoved for it merely resniffed that no guns could be supplied from Great Britain because treaties with Egypt prevented guns from being shipped through the Suez Canal and that all available R.A.F. planes were engaged in the Berlin Airlift.1973, Norman Cleaveland, Bang! Bang! in Ampang: Dredging Tin During Malaya's "emergency."

Forms of re-sniff

third-person singular presentre-sniffs
present participlere-sniffing
past participlere-sniffed
pastre-sniffed

Questions about re-sniff

What is re-sniff the alternative form of?
Re-sniff is the alternative form of resniff.

Words near re-sniff in the dictionary

  1. re-sizeable
  2. re-skill
  3. re-skilled
  4. re-skilling
  5. re-skills
  6. re-sniff
  7. re-sniffed
  8. re-sniffing
  9. re-sniffs
  10. re-solve
  11. re-solved

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-sniff (page history and authors); resniff (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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