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reanswer

/ɹiːˈænsə(ɹ)/

reanswer verb: to answer again or anew.

Verb

reanswer (third-person singular simple present reanswers, present participle reanswering, simple past and past participle reanswered)

  1. (transitive) To answer again or anew.
    • It mingles thoughts on pitching, producing and getting an agent with more light-hearted bits, like reanswering questions sent to the regular Walter Scott column in Parade magazine (in which momentous topics, like the most popular celebrity features demanded by plastic surgery patients in Beverly...2007 August 4, Michael Cieply, “The Screenwriter as God, Examining His Creations”, in New York Times
  2. To repay, compensate, or make amends for.
    • Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of reanswer

third-person singular presentreanswers
present participlereanswering
past participlereanswered
pastreanswered

Origin of reanswer

From re- + answer.

Questions about reanswer

What does reanswer mean?
Reanswer means to answer again or anew.
What part of speech is reanswer?
Reanswer is a verb.
How do you pronounce reanswer?
Reanswer is pronounced /ɹiːˈænsə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of reanswer?
The past tense of reanswer is reanswered.

Words near reanswer in the dictionary

  1. reanointment
  2. reanointments
  3. reanoints
  4. Reanos
  5. reans
  6. reanswer
  7. reanswered
  8. reanswering
  9. reanswers
  10. reap
  11. reap hook

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