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rebracket

rebracket verb: to cause to undergo rebracketing.

Verb

rebracket (third-person singular simple present rebrackets, present participle rebracketing, simple past and past participle rebracketed)

  1. (transitive) To cause to undergo rebracketing.
    • In Middle English, a naperon was rebracketed to an aperon.

Forms of rebracket

third-person singular presentrebrackets
present participlerebracketing
past participlerebracketed
pastrebracketed

Origin of rebracket

Back-formation from rebracketing. By surface analysis, re- + bracket.

Questions about rebracket

What does rebracket mean?
Rebracket means to cause to undergo rebracketing.
What part of speech is rebracket?
Rebracket is a verb.
What is the past tense of rebracket?
The past tense of rebracket is rebracketed.

Words near rebracket in the dictionary

  1. Rebra
  2. rebrace
  3. rebraced
  4. rebraces
  5. rebracing
  6. rebracket
  7. rebracketed
  8. rebracketing
  9. rebracketings
  10. rebrackets
  11. rebraid

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