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rebites

rebites is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rebite.

Meaning of rebite

Verb

rebite (third-person singular simple present rebites, present participle rebiting, simple past rebit, past participle rebitten)

  1. (transitive) To freshen worn lines in (an etched plate) by subjecting it to acid again.

Questions about rebites

What is rebites the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rebites is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rebite.

Words near rebites in the dictionary

  1. rebirths
  2. rebis
  3. rebises
  4. rebit
  5. rebite
  6. rebites
  7. rebiting
  8. rebitings
  9. rebits
  10. rebitten
  11. reblacken

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rebites (page history and authors); rebite (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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