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reestablish

verbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,074 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: reestablished, reestablishing, reestablishes

To reestablish is to set something up again after a break. Reestablish contact.

It implies the thing existed before and stopped, which is what the re- carries. To reestablish a service is harder than starting one, since everybody remembers the old version.

Petr Jan Juračka · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of reestablish

  1. 1verbreestablishTo set something up again after a break.B2+

    “It took two years to reestablish the ferry after the pier collapsed.”

reestablish is a restoring.

Also accepted in games: re-establish

Where it comes from

  1. Old French

    establir

  2. Middle English

    establissen

  3. English

    establish

  4. English, today

    reestablish

Built from

  • stabilis · Latin — firm, steady, stable

From re- + establish. establish comes from Middle English establissen, from Old French establir. Middle English establissen, from Old French establiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of establir (modern French établir), from Latin stabilio, from stabilis (“firm, steady, stable”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

reestablish in the wild

  • A shunt (see patent foramen ovale and atrial septal defect) between the two systems will ensue if possible to reestablish the equilibrium.

    Stroke volume

  • The hope is to reestablish the business districts, maintain current homeowners and create new homeowners by rehabbing current vacant homes.

    Beltzhoover (Pittsburgh)

  • In the seventh year, Jehoiada and the other priests devised a plan to reestablish the Davidic line in Judah through the coronation of Jehoash (aged seven).

    Jehosheba

  • Although bulgarian officials have voiced their intentions to reestablish the competition as soon as 2026, these aspirations have yet to be realized.

    Varna International Ballet Competition

  • The national team wasn't active from 2012 to 2022, before the Egyptian Handball Federation decided to reestablish a team.

    Egypt women's national handball team

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the establir family

establish

reestablish — used about once every 7,814 pages · #11,074 · point at the bar for the others

  • establishment