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reassumes

reassumes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reassume.

Meaning of reassume

Verb

reassume (third-person singular simple present reassumes, present participle reassuming, simple past and past participle reassumed)

  1. To resume, to carry on (a practice, thought, occupation etc.) again.
  2. To take on or adopt again.
    • The next day he reassumed his disguise.
  3. (archaic) To take back into one's possession.
    • What some lament of, we rather should rejoyce at, should rather praise this pious forwardnes among men, to reassume the ill deputed care of their Religion into their own hands again.1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

Questions about reassumes

What is reassumes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Reassumes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reassume.

Words near reassumes in the dictionary

  1. reassortment
  2. reassortments
  3. reassorts
  4. reassume
  5. reassumed
  6. reassumes
  7. reassumeth
  8. reassuming
  9. reassumption
  10. reassumptions
  11. reassurable

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