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reclothing

reclothing is the present participle and gerund of reclothe.

Meaning of reclothe

Verb

reclothe (third-person singular simple present reclothes, present participle reclothing, simple past and past participle reclothed)

  1. (transitive) To clothe again or anew.
  2. (transitive) To give a new form or appearance to.
    • Where do children's rhymes come from? What ancient motif is simply reclothed in a modern story or a children's skip-rope song?1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 11

Questions about reclothing

What is reclothing the present participle and gerund of?
Reclothing is the present participle and gerund of reclothe.

Words near reclothing in the dictionary

  1. reclosure
  2. reclosures
  3. reclothe
  4. reclothed
  5. reclothes
  6. reclothing
  7. recloud
  8. reclouded
  9. reclouding
  10. reclouds
  11. recloven

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reclothing (page history and authors); reclothe (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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