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rekindle

rekindle verb: to kindle again.

Verb

rekindle (third-person singular simple present rekindles, present participle rekindling, simple past and past participle rekindled)

  1. (transitive) To kindle again.
  2. (intransitive) To be kindled or ignited again.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To revive.
    • After being abroad for a decade, when he came back he rekindled his obsession with cricket.
    • It was rekindled this summer when going through the all-time football scores for St. Mary’s of Stockton and Oakdale (two of the top programs in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section) and I discovered that both of them can still count their worst losses as being to Stockton High at 78-0 and 90-0, respectively.2015 October 1, Mark Tennis, “State’s Greatest Closed High Schools”, in Cal-Hi Sports

Noun

rekindle (plural rekindles)

  1. Synonym of reflash.
    Synonyms:
    reflash

rekindle meaning in Bengali

rekindle in Bengali

আবার প্রজ্বলিত করা, পুনরায় প্রজ্বলিত, জ্বালানো হওয়া, পুনরুজ্জীবিত করা

Synonyms of rekindle

Forms of rekindle

Verb
third-person singular presentrekindles
present participlerekindling
past participlerekindled
pastrekindled
Noun
pluralrekindles

Past tense of rekindle: rekindled

Origin of rekindle

From re- + kindle.

Words formed from rekindle

Questions about rekindle

What does rekindle mean?
Rekindle means to kindle again.
What is rekindle in Bengali?
Rekindle in Bengali is আবার প্রজ্বলিত করা, পুনরায় প্রজ্বলিত, জ্বালানো হওয়া. See Rekindle meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is rekindle?
Rekindle can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of rekindle?
The past tense of rekindle is rekindled.

Words near rekindle in the dictionary

  1. rekidnaps
  2. rekill
  3. rekilled
  4. rekilling
  5. rekills
  6. rekindle
  7. rekindled
  8. rekindlement
  9. rekindler
  10. rekindlers
  11. rekindles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rekindle (page history and authors); rekindle (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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