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reinscribe

reinscribe verb: to inscribe again.

Verb

reinscribe (third-person singular simple present reinscribes, present participle reinscribing, simple past and past participle reinscribed)

  1. To inscribe again.
  2. To reproduce an idea in a new context or manifestation, typically in a way that reinforces it or extends its influence.
    • This ambivalent anality both parodied national and gendered fantasies of “hardness” at the same time that it drew on dynamics of racial and queer mimesis to reinscribe hegemonic (white/ straight) masculinity.2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment

Forms of reinscribe

third-person singular presentreinscribes
present participlereinscribing
past participlereinscribed
pastreinscribed

Origin of reinscribe

From re- + inscribe.

Questions about reinscribe

What does reinscribe mean?
Reinscribe means to inscribe again.
What part of speech is reinscribe?
Reinscribe is a verb.
What is the past tense of reinscribe?
The past tense of reinscribe is reinscribed.

Words near reinscribe in the dictionary

  1. reinquires
  2. reinquiring
  3. reins
  4. reins in
  5. reins up
  6. reinscribe
  7. reinscribed
  8. reinscribes
  9. reinscribing
  10. reinscription
  11. reinscriptions

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