rebooted
rebooted is the simple past and past participle of reboot.
Meaning of reboot
Verb
reboot (third-person singular simple present reboots, present participle rebooting, simple past and past participle rebooted)
- To execute a computer's boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, commonly after a system failure.
- We need to reboot the system after installing these updates.
- To start afresh.
- They rebooted the TV series, but it's even worse than the original.
- Restart; to return to an initial configuration or state.
- Egg farmers do this to reboot birds' internal clocks so they start laying valuable eggs faster and, crucially, at the same time.2011, J. Morris Hicks, Healthy Eating, Healthy World, →ISBN, page 119
Questions about rebooted
- What is rebooted the simple past and past participle of?
- Rebooted is the simple past and past participle of reboot.
Words near rebooted in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rebooted (page history and authors); reboot (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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