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reconverting

reconverting is the present participle and gerund of reconvert.

Meaning of reconvert

Verb

reconvert (third-person singular simple present reconverts, present participle reconverting, simple past and past participle reconverted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To convert again, convert back.
    • Now it could not be expected that so much sea being converted into land by this Judgement by two years labour, and but finished and brought to pass in the 6th year of Henry the Sixth, the same land should be in the very next year, viz. in the 7th year of the same Kings Reign reconverted into sea.1664, John Exton, chapter 8, in The Maritime Dicæologie, or Sea Jurisdiction of England, London, page 96
  2. (transitive) To convert.
    • This epiſtle dyd ſaynt Peter wryte to the Hethen that we reconuerted ⁊ exhorteth thẽ to ſtonde faſt in the fayth[…]1534 November, Willyam Tindale [i.e., William Tyndale], transl., “A Prologe to the Fyrst Epistle of Saynt Peter”, in The Newe Testament […] (Tyndale Bible), Antwerp: […] Marten Emperowr, folio...

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Questions about reconverting

What is reconverting the present participle and gerund of?
Reconverting is the present participle and gerund of reconvert.

Words near reconverting in the dictionary

  1. reconverted
  2. reconverter
  3. reconverters
  4. reconvertibility
  5. reconvertible
  6. reconverting
  7. reconverts
  8. reconvey
  9. reconveyance
  10. reconveyances
  11. reconveyed

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