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reprised

reprised is the simple past and past participle of reprise.

Meaning of reprise

Verb

reprise (third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
    • How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. To repeat or resume an action or a role.
    • The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.
    Synonyms:
    repeat
  3. (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.
    Synonyms:
    compensate

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Questions about reprised

What is reprised the simple past and past participle of?
Reprised is the simple past and past participle of reprise.

Words near reprised in the dictionary

  1. reprioritizing
  2. reprisable
  3. reprisal
  4. reprisals
  5. reprise
  6. reprised
  7. reprises
  8. reprising
  9. repristinate
  10. repristinated
  11. repristinates

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