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reidentify

reidentify verb: to identify (something or someone) again; to make identifiable again; to re-discern the identity of; especially, for example, to undo deidentification of.

Verb

reidentify (third-person singular simple present reidentifies, present participle reidentifying, simple past and past participle reidentified)

  1. (transitive) To identify (something or someone) again; to make identifiable again; to re-discern the identity of; especially, for example, to undo deidentification of.
    • To take each in turn, how likely is it that public health adversaries will reidentify data?2019 October 4, Stephen Holland, Ethics and Governance of Public Health Information, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 68
  2. (intransitive) To identify again (as something one previously identified as, or as something else).
    • The decision to remain Catholic (or to reidentify as Catholic)[…]2017 July 12, Thomas Robbins, In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, Routledge, →ISBN
    • By constructing an ethnic identity for people who are stigmatized and suffering as consequence of their faith in Christ, Peter helps his addressees disidentify with their past and reidentify as the[…]2021 June 17, Janette H. Ok, Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 56

reidentify meaning in Bengali

reidentify in Bengali

পুনরায় শনাক্তযোগ্য করে তোলা, বিশেষত

Antonyms of reidentify

Forms of reidentify

third-person singular presentreidentifies
present participlereidentifying
past participlereidentified
pastreidentified

Origin of reidentify

From re- + identify.

Questions about reidentify

What does reidentify mean?
Reidentify means to identify (something or someone) again; to make identifiable again; to re-discern the identity of; especially, for example, to undo deidentification of.
What is reidentify in Bengali?
Reidentify in Bengali is পুনরায় শনাক্তযোগ্য করে তোলা, বিশেষত. See Reidentify meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is reidentify?
Reidentify is a verb.
What is the past tense of reidentify?
The past tense of reidentify is reidentified.

Words near reidentify in the dictionary

  1. reidentifiable
  2. reidentification
  3. reidentifications
  4. reidentified
  5. reidentifies
  6. reidentify
  7. reidentifying
  8. reideologization
  9. reideologize
  10. Reider
  11. Reiders

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