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rescreen

rescreen verb: to screen again.

Verb

rescreen (third-person singular simple present rescreens, present participle rescreening, simple past and past participle rescreened)

  1. (transitive) To screen again.
    • The insufferable lines and the need to be rescreened at security even though you have never left a secured area is unexplained.2008 January 27, “Letters: Bad (and Good) Airports”, in New York Times

Forms of rescreen

third-person singular presentrescreens
present participlerescreening
past participlerescreened
pastrescreened

Origin of rescreen

From re- + screen.

Questions about rescreen

What does rescreen mean?
Rescreen means to screen again.
What part of speech is rescreen?
Rescreen is a verb.
What is the past tense of rescreen?
The past tense of rescreen is rescreened.

Words near rescreen in the dictionary

  1. rescratching
  2. rescream
  3. rescreamed
  4. rescreaming
  5. rescreams
  6. rescreen
  7. rescreened
  8. rescreening
  9. rescreenings
  10. rescreens
  11. rescrew

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