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repone

repone verb: to replace.

Verb

repone (third-person singular simple present repones, present participle reponing, simple past and past participle reponed)

  1. To replace.
    • On 5th June Stephenson and Company presented a petition to be reponed, and the Sheriff pronounced an interlocutor reponing them.1852, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court
  2. To reply.

Forms of repone

third-person singular presentrepones
present participlereponing
past participlereponed
pastreponed

Origin of repone

Borrowed from Latin reponere; prefix re- (“re-”) + ponere (“to place”).

Questions about repone

What does repone mean?
Repone means to replace.
What part of speech is repone?
Repone is a verb.
What is the past tense of repone?
The past tense of repone is reponed.

Words near repone in the dictionary

  1. repolymerizing
  2. reponder
  3. repondered
  4. repondering
  5. reponders
  6. repone
  7. reponed
  8. repones
  9. reponing
  10. repool
  11. repooled

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