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recentre

recentre is the alternative form of recenter.

Meaning of recenter

Verb

recenter (third-person singular simple present recenters, present participle recentering, simple past and past participle recentered)

  1. (transitive) To center (something) again.
    • Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim.1796 December 24–26 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC, stanza IX...

Forms of recentre

third-person singular presentrecentres
present participlerecentring
past participlerecentred
pastrecentred

Origin of recentre

From re- + centre.

Questions about recentre

What is recentre the alternative form of?
Recentre is the alternative form of recenter.

Words near recentre in the dictionary

  1. recentralizations
  2. recentralize
  3. recentralized
  4. recentralizes
  5. recentralizing
  6. recentre
  7. recentred
  8. recentres
  9. recentrifugation
  10. recentrifuge
  11. recentrifuged

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: recentre (page history and authors); recenter (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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