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reknow

reknow verb: to know again; to relearn or understand anew.

Verb

reknow (third-person singular simple present reknows, present participle reknowing, simple past reknew, past participle reknown)

  1. To know again; to relearn or understand anew.
    • The teacher’s special function is to lead the pupil to reknow these elements, and by thought to attain the desired knowledge.1885 November, E. E. White, “The Philosophy of Teaching”, in The Illinois School Journal, volume 5, number 7, page 160
    • In recognizing one another in our aesthetic constructs, in coming to reknow one another, we come to reknow ourselves as well.1988, Nancy R. Harrison, Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women’s Text, →ISBN, page 45

Forms of reknow

third-person singular presentreknows
present participlereknowing
pastreknew
past participlereknown

Origin of reknow

From re- + know.

Questions about reknow

What does reknow mean?
Reknow means to know again; to relearn or understand anew.
What part of speech is reknow?
Reknow is a verb.
What is the past tense of reknow?
The past tense of reknow is reknew.

Words near reknow in the dictionary

  1. reknot
  2. reknots
  3. reknotted
  4. reknotting
  5. reknottings
  6. reknow
  7. reknowing
  8. reknown
  9. reknowned
  10. reknows
  11. Rekstad

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