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re-wear

re-wear is the alternative form of rewear.

Meaning of rewear

Verb

rewear (third-person singular simple present rewears, present participle rewearing, simple past rewore, past participle reworn)

  1. To wear again.
    • Some face masks can be washed and reworn.

Forms of re-wear

third-person singular presentre-wears
present participlere-wearing
pastre-wore
past participlere-worn

Questions about re-wear

What is re-wear the alternative form of?
Re-wear is the alternative form of rewear.

Words near re-wear in the dictionary

  1. re-viewing
  2. re-views
  3. re-watch
  4. re-watchable
  5. re-watching
  6. re-wear
  7. re-wearing
  8. re-wears
  9. re-word
  10. re-worded
  11. re-wording

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-wear (page history and authors); rewear (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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