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restricken

restricken is the past participle of restrike.

Meaning of restrike

Verb

restrike (third-person singular simple present restrikes, present participle restriking, simple past restruck, past participle restruck or restricken)

  1. (transitive) To strike again.
    • She heard her father stumbling against an armchair, then the sound of a match struck and restruck lightly against a box.1928, Julien Green, The Closed Garden, page 62
  2. To strike a coin from old dies after the original minting of that coin had ceased.
  3. To reignite the arc in an arc lamp.
  4. To strike a new print from an old negative.

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Questions about restricken

What is restricken the past participle of?
Restricken is the past participle of restrike.

Words near restricken in the dictionary

  1. restressing
  2. restretch
  3. restretched
  4. restretches
  5. restretching
  6. restricken
  7. restrict
  8. restrictability
  9. restrictable
  10. restrictase
  11. restrictases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: restricken (page history and authors); restrike (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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