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reclosed

reclosed is the simple past and past participle of reclose.

Meaning of reclose

Verb

reclose (third-person singular simple present recloses, present participle reclosing, simple past and past participle reclosed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To close or be closed after having previously been opened.
    • Stents improved the procedure by combating the tendency of many vessels to reclose quickly after angioplasty.2007 June 1, Ronald Smothers, “Court Says New Jersey Official Was Wrong to Permit Angioplasties”, in New York Times

Questions about reclosed

What is reclosed the simple past and past participle of?
Reclosed is the simple past and past participle of reclose.

Words near reclosed in the dictionary

  1. reclones
  2. recloning
  3. reclosable
  4. reclose
  5. recloseable
  6. reclosed
  7. recloser
  8. reclosers
  9. recloses
  10. reclosing
  11. reclosure

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reclosed (page history and authors); reclose (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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