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reunderstand

reunderstand verb: to reach a new or renewed understanding.

Verb

reunderstand (third-person singular simple present reunderstands, present participle reunderstanding, simple past and past participle reunderstood)

  1. To reach a new or renewed understanding.
    • A large part of the weekend service is designed to help people reunderstand who God is.1996, G. A. Pritchard, Willow Creek Seeker Services: Evaluating a New Way of Doing Church, Baker Books, →ISBN
    • But as I came to know each of them in the confines of this room, I began to reunderstand that each man's humanity and capacity to love expresses itself in different forms.2007, Brian Keenan, “The Tollund Men”, in Michael Marland, editor, Ideas, Insights and Arguments: A Non-fiction Collection, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 227

Forms of reunderstand

third-person singular presentreunderstands
present participlereunderstanding
past participlereunderstood
pastreunderstood

Origin of reunderstand

From re- + understand.

Questions about reunderstand

What does reunderstand mean?
Reunderstand means to reach a new or renewed understanding.
What part of speech is reunderstand?
Reunderstand is a verb.
What is the past tense of reunderstand?
The past tense of reunderstand is reunderstood.

Words near reunderstand in the dictionary

  1. reundercutting
  2. reundergo
  3. reundergoes
  4. reundergoing
  5. reundergone
  6. reunderstand
  7. reunderstanding
  8. reunderstands
  9. reunderstood
  10. reundertake
  11. reundertaken

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