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refound

refound is the simple past and past participle of refind.

Verb

refound (third-person singular simple present refounds, present participle refounding, simple past and past participle refounded)

  1. (transitive) To found again; to reestablish.
  2. (transitive) To found or cast anew.
    • Antient bells refounded1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington

Meaning of refind

Verb

refind (third-person singular simple present refinds, present participle refinding, simple past and past participle refound)

  1. To find something again.
    • Cardan, in his fifth book of Wisdom, gives an instance in a smith of Milan, a fellow-citizen of his, one Galeus de Rubeis, that being commended for refinding of an instrument of Archimedes, for joy ran mad., vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.300
    Synonyms:
    rediscover

Forms of refound

third-person singular presentrefounds
present participlerefounding
past participlerefounded
pastrefounded

Origin of refound

Inflected form

From re- + found.

Words formed from refound

Questions about refound

What does refound mean?
Refound means to found again; to reestablish.
What is refound the simple past and past participle of?
Refound is the simple past and past participle of refind.
What part of speech is refound?
Refound is a verb.
What is the past tense of refound?
The past tense of refound is refounded.

Words near refound in the dictionary

  1. refoulements
  2. refouling
  3. refoulment
  4. refoulments
  5. refouls
  6. refound
  7. refoundation
  8. refoundations
  9. refounded
  10. refounder
  11. refounders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refound (page history and authors); refind (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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