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reinscribes

reinscribes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reinscribe.

Meaning of reinscribe

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

Questions about reinscribes

What is reinscribes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Reinscribes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reinscribe.

Words near reinscribes in the dictionary

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

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