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rechallenged

rechallenged is the simple past and past participle of rechallenge.

Meaning of rechallenge

Verb

rechallenge (third-person singular simple present rechallenges, present participle rechallenging, simple past and past participle rechallenged)

  1. To challenge again.
  2. To challenge in return.
  3. To try a therapeutic pharmaceutical drug, suspected allergen, or medical treatment on a patient a second or subsequent time, to see if the suspected effects of the treatment occur again. This is typically performed to confirm allergic or adverse reactions to allergens or medications, but may also be used to confirm beneficial treatments or to retry a probable beneficial treatment which did not appear to be effective previously.

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Questions about rechallenged

What is rechallenged the simple past and past participle of?
Rechallenged is the simple past and past participle of rechallenge.

Words near rechallenged in the dictionary

  1. rechalk
  2. rechalked
  3. rechalking
  4. rechalks
  5. rechallenge
  6. rechallenged
  7. rechallenges
  8. rechallenging
  9. rechamber
  10. rechambered
  11. rechambering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rechallenged (page history and authors); rechallenge (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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