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recompact

recompact verb: to compact again.

Verb

recompact (third-person singular simple present recompacts, present participle recompacting, simple past and past participle recompacted)

  1. To compact again.
    • Recompact my scattered body.1633, John Donne, A Valediction: Of My Name

Forms of recompact

third-person singular presentrecompacts
present participlerecompacting
past participlerecompacted
pastrecompacted

Origin of recompact

From re- + compact.

Questions about recompact

What does recompact mean?
Recompact means to compact again.
What part of speech is recompact?
Recompact is a verb.
What is the past tense of recompact?
The past tense of recompact is recompacted.

Words near recompact in the dictionary

  1. recommunicated
  2. recommunicates
  3. recommunicating
  4. recommunication
  5. recomp
  6. recompact
  7. recompacted
  8. recompacting
  9. recompaction
  10. recompactions
  11. recompacts

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