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rearresting

rearresting is the present participle and gerund of rearrest.

Meaning of rearrest

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.

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Questions about rearresting

What is rearresting the present participle and gerund of?
Rearresting is the present participle and gerund of rearrest.

Words near rearresting in the dictionary

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

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