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rearrest

rearrest verb: to arrest again.

Verb

rearrest (third-person singular simple present rearrests, present participle rearresting, simple past and past participle rearrested)

  1. To arrest again.
    • The police rearrested the suspect after finding new evidence linking him to the crime.

Noun

rearrest (plural rearrests)

  1. A second or subsequent arrest.

rearrest meaning in Tamil

rearrest in Tamil

மீண்டுந்தளைப்படுத்தம்

Forms of rearrest

Verb
third-person singular presentrearrests
present participlerearresting
past participlerearrested
pastrearrested
Noun
pluralrearrests

Origin of rearrest

From re- + arrest.

Questions about rearrest

What does rearrest mean?
Rearrest means to arrest again.
What is rearrest in Tamil?
Rearrest in Tamil is மீண்டுந்தளைப்படுத்தம். See Rearrest meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rearrest?
Rearrest can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of rearrest?
The past tense of rearrest is rearrested.

Words near rearrest in the dictionary

  1. rearrangingly
  2. rearrangings
  3. rearray
  4. rearrayed
  5. rearrays
  6. rearrest
  7. rearrested
  8. rearresting
  9. rearrests
  10. rearrival
  11. rearrivals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rearrest (page history and authors); rearrest (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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