Word.ws English Dictionary

reopened

reopened is the past participle of reopen.

Meaning of reopen

Verb

reopen (third-person singular simple present reopens, present participle reopening, simple past and past participle reopened)

  1. (transitive) To open (something) again.
    • From the moment of the declaration by Germany, she would reopen her inhuman warfare by the indiscriminate use of submarines.1920, Breckinridge Long, US Ambassador to Italy, a speech titled America's Accomplishments
  2. (intransitive) To open again.
    • The new law allows the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to issue additional currency on good assets and thus the banks which reopen will be able to meet every legitimate call.1933, Franklin Roosevelt, Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 12 March 1933

Phrases with reopened

Questions about reopened

What is reopened the past participle of?
Reopened is the past participle of reopen.

Words near reopened in the dictionary

  1. reongs
  2. reop
  3. reopen
  4. reopen old wounds
  5. reopenable
  6. reopened
  7. reopened old wounds
  8. reopener
  9. reopeners
  10. reopening
  11. reopening old wounds

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reopened (page history and authors); reopen (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “reopened.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/reopened. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.