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reswelled

reswelled is the simple past of reswell.

Meaning of reswell

Verb

reswell (third-person singular simple present reswells, present participle reswelling, simple past reswelled, past participle reswollen or reswelled)

  1. To add liquid so as to cause a dried substance, such as a gel, to expand.
    • For membranes which have been dried out and reswollen, conditioning to the solvent is accomplished in a much shorter time than for the highly swollen cellulose.1949, CR Masson, HW Melville, “Osmometry of high polymer solutions”, in Journal of Polymer Science

Questions about reswelled

What is reswelled the simple past of?
Reswelled is the simple past of reswell.

Words near reswelled in the dictionary

  1. resweeten
  2. resweetened
  3. resweetening
  4. resweetens
  5. reswell
  6. reswelled
  7. reswelling
  8. reswells
  9. reswept
  10. reswim
  11. reswimming

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