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reprize

reprize is the obsolete form 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

See all 10 meanings of reprise

Forms of reprize

third-person singular presentreprizes
present participlereprizing
past participlereprized
pastreprized

Questions about reprize

What is reprize the obsolete form of?
Reprize is the obsolete form of reprise.

Words near reprize in the dictionary

  1. reprivatizing
  2. reprive
  3. reprived
  4. reprives
  5. repriving
  6. reprize
  7. reprized
  8. reprizes
  9. reprizing
  10. repro
  11. repro-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reprize (page history and authors); reprise (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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