Etymology

regrate

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Today it means: to grate again Full definition →

French regratter
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromregratter“to scrape again”
  2. English todayregrate

From French regratter (“to scrape again”). Etymologically equivalent to, or by surface analysis, re + grate.

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