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reanswering

reanswering is the present participle and gerund of reanswer.

Meaning of reanswer

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...

Questions about reanswering

What is reanswering the present participle and gerund of?
Reanswering is the present participle and gerund of reanswer.

Words near reanswering in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reanswering (page history and authors); reanswer (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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