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rehandles

rehandles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rehandle.

Meaning of rehandle

Verb

rehandle (third-person singular simple present rehandles, present participle rehandling, simple past and past participle rehandled)

  1. (transitive) To handle again.
    • Its author is still concerned primarily with man on earth, rehandling in a new perspective an ancient theme: that man, each man and all men, and all their works shall die.1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 21
  2. (transitive) To furnish with a new handle; to replace the handle of.

Questions about rehandles

What is rehandles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rehandles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rehandle.

Words near rehandles in the dictionary

  1. rehandicaps
  2. rehandle
  3. rehandled
  4. rehandler
  5. rehandlers
  6. rehandles
  7. rehandling
  8. rehandlings
  9. rehang
  10. rehanged
  11. rehanging

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