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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)

  1. (ergative) 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.
  2. (broadly) To start afresh.
    • They rebooted the TV series, but it's even worse than the original.
  3. 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

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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

  1. reboosted
  2. reboosting
  3. reboosts
  4. reboot
  5. rebootable
  6. rebooted
  7. rebooter
  8. rebooters
  9. rebooting
  10. rebootings
  11. reboots

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