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reinvents

reinvents is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reinvent.

Meaning of reinvent

Verb

reinvent (third-person singular simple present reinvents, present participle reinventing, simple past and past participle reinvented)

  1. (transitive) To invent again something that has already been invented.
    • A narrative circulates at Mitchell, Hall about a naive young employee who, in his eagerness to be creative, "reinvents the wheel," devoting so many hours reformulating work that has already been done that he drives himself into a nervous breakdown.1993, Marsha Witten, “Narrative and the Culture of Obedience at the Workplace”, in Dennis K. Mumby, editor, Narrative and Social Control: Critical Perspectives (Sage Annual Reviews of Communications...
  2. (transitive) To adapt into a different form; to give a new style or image to.
    • He had the ability to reinvent himself as needed.

Phrases with reinvents

Questions about reinvents

What is reinvents the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Reinvents is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reinvent.

Words near reinvents in the dictionary

  1. reinventoried
  2. reinventories
  3. reinventors
  4. reinventory
  5. reinventorying
  6. reinvents
  7. reinvents the wheel
  8. reinversion
  9. reinversions
  10. reinvert
  11. reinverted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reinvents (page history and authors); reinvent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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