reexamine

or re-ex·am·ine

[ ree-ig-zam-in ]

/ ˌri ɪgˈzæm ɪn /

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verb (used with object), re·ex·am·ined, re·ex·am·in·ing.

to examine again.

Law. to examine (a witness) again after having questioned him or her previously.

Origin of reexamine

First recorded in 1585–95; re- + examine

OTHER WORDS FROM reexamine

re·ex·am·in·a·ble, adjective re·ex·am·i·na·tion, noun re·ex·am·in·er, noun

Words nearby reexamine

reentry, reentry vehicle, reest, reeve, reexam, reexamine, reexport, ref, ref., ref. ch., ref. pres.

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“The city just needs to re-examine this whole 19th-century burial process,” Hunt, told the New York Times.

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The public has generously granted the president more time to re-examine his strategy in Afghanistan.

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It is a retrograde theory which we are asked to re-examine and perhaps accept.

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My intention to re-examine this cave and ascertain whither it led had, for a time, been suspended by different considerations.

Edgar Huntley |Charles Brockden Brown

Picking up my signed depositions the Chairman proceeded to re-examine me on my defence.

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons |Henry Charles Mahoney
We will re-examine the communications he refers to, and insert such of them as we possibly can.

Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 108, November 22, 1851 |Various
Our counsel did not care to re-examine me; I recognised that it would be useless.

Miss Cayley's Adventures |Grant Allen

British Dictionary definitions for re-examine

re-examine

/ (ˌriːɪɡˈzæmɪn) /

verb (tr)

to examine again

law to examine (one's own witness) again upon matters arising out of his cross-examination

Derived forms of re-examine

re-examinable, adjective re-examination, noun re-examiner, noun

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reexamine

or re-ex·am·ine

verb (used with object), re·ex·am·ined, re·ex·am·in·ing.

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reexamine

or re-ex·am·ine

verb (used with object), re·ex·am·ined, re·ex·am·in·ing.

Origin of reexamine

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