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recharacterise

recharacterise is the alternative form of recharacterize.

Meaning of recharacterize

Verb

recharacterize (third-person singular simple present recharacterizes, present participle recharacterizing, simple past and past participle recharacterized)

  1. (transitive) To characterize again or anew.

Forms of recharacterise

third-person singular presentrecharacterises
present participlerecharacterising
past participlerecharacterised
pastrecharacterised

Origin of recharacterise

From re- + characterise.

Questions about recharacterise

What is recharacterise the alternative form of?
Recharacterise is the alternative form of recharacterize.

Words near recharacterise in the dictionary

  1. rechanted
  2. rechanting
  3. rechants
  4. recharacterisation
  5. recharacterisations
  6. recharacterise
  7. recharacterised
  8. recharacterises
  9. recharacterising
  10. recharacterization
  11. recharacterizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recharacterise (page history and authors); recharacterize (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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