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refocussed

refocussed is the simple past and past participle of refocus.

Meaning of refocus

Verb

refocus (third-person singular simple present refocuses or refocusses, present participle refocusing or refocussing, simple past and past participle refocused or refocussed)

  1. (intransitive) to focus on something else
    • Labour frontbencher Louise Haigh (Shadow Transport Secretary for heaven's sake!) initially lambasted TOCs before the handful of specialist rail commentators fell on her tweets and she changed her tune, refocusing her fire on Government.2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3
  2. (transitive) to change the focus of
    • to refocus a microscope
  3. (intransitive) to change one's priorities
  4. (intransitive) to come back into focus
    • Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused.1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies

Forms of refocussed

alternative formrefocused

Questions about refocussed

What is refocussed the simple past and past participle of?
Refocussed is the simple past and past participle of refocus.

Words near refocussed in the dictionary

  1. refocuser
  2. refocusers
  3. refocuses
  4. refocusing
  5. refocusings
  6. refocussed
  7. refocusses
  8. refocussing
  9. refold
  10. refoldability
  11. refoldable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refocussed (page history and authors); refocus (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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