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reinscribing

reinscribing is the present participle and gerund 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 reinscribing

What is reinscribing the present participle and gerund of?
Reinscribing is the present participle and gerund of reinscribe.

Words near reinscribing in the dictionary

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

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