resetted
resetted is the simple past and past participle of reset.
Meaning of reset
Verb (1)
reset (third-person singular simple present resets, present participle resetting, simple past and past participle reset)
- To set back to the initial state.
- Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- To set to zero.
- Synonyms:
- zeroize
- To adjust; to set or position differently.
- He turned and steered his course toward some lights clustered at the end of the street. They proved farther away than he had anticipated, and after a long quest he came to the conclusion that his eyes had been mysteriously removed from their proper places and had been reset on either side of his...1895, Robert W. Chambers, Rue Barrée
Verb (2)
reset (third-person singular simple present resets, present participle resetting, simple past and past participle resetted)
- To receive and hide (stolen goods, or a criminal, etc.)
- Criminal resetting of property shall not be limited to the receiving of property taken by theft or robbery, but shall extend to the receiving of property appropriated by breach of trust and embezzlement and by falsehood, fraud and wilful imposition.1995, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part VI, section 51”, in Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995, page 41
Questions about resetted
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- Resetted is the simple past and past participle of reset.
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