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reclosing

reclosing is the present participle and gerund 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 reclosing

What is reclosing the present participle and gerund of?
Reclosing is the present participle and gerund of reclose.

Words near reclosing in the dictionary

  1. recloseable
  2. reclosed
  3. recloser
  4. reclosers
  5. recloses
  6. reclosing
  7. reclosure
  8. reclosures
  9. reclothe
  10. reclothed
  11. reclothes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reclosing (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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