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reentre

reentre is the obsolete form of reenter.

Meaning of reenter

Verb

reenter (third-person singular simple present reenters, present participle reentering, simple past and past participle reentered)

  1. (ambitransitive) To enter again; return into.
    • The shuttle reentered the atmosphere.
  2. (transitive) To enter again; retype, reinput.
    • We had to reenter a day's worth of data into the system.
  3. (ambitransitive) To cut deeper where the aqua fortis has not bitten sufficiently.

Forms of reentre

third-person singular presentreentres
present participlereentring
past participlereentred
pastreentred

Words that rhyme with reentre

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Questions about reentre

What is reentre the obsolete form of?
Reentre is the obsolete form of reenter.

Words near reentre in the dictionary

  1. reentrancies
  2. reentrancy
  3. reentrant
  4. reentrantly
  5. reentrants
  6. reentre
  7. reentred
  8. reentres
  9. reentries
  10. reentring
  11. reentrust

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reentre (page history and authors); reenter (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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