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revie

/ɹiˈvaɪ/

revie verb: to vie with, or rival, in return.

Verb

revie (third-person singular simple present revies, present participle revying, simple past and past participle revied)

  1. (obsolete) To vie with, or rival, in return.
  2. (obsolete) To exceed an adversary's wager in a card game; to reraise.
    • here's a trick vied and revied!1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please...
  3. (obsolete) To make a retort; to bandy words.

Forms of revie

third-person singular presentrevies
present participlerevying
past participlerevied
pastrevied

Origin of revie

From re- + vie.

Questions about revie

What does revie mean?
Revie means to vie with, or rival, in return.
What part of speech is revie?
Revie is a verb.
How do you pronounce revie?
Revie is pronounced /ɹiˈvaɪ/.
What is the past tense of revie?
The past tense of revie is revied.

Words near revie in the dictionary

  1. revictualled
  2. revictualling
  3. revictualment
  4. revictualments
  5. revictuals
  6. revie
  7. revied
  8. revies
  9. review
  10. review article
  11. review articles

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