reëngage

verb

Dated spelling of re-engage.

Meanings

verbreëngage (third-person singular simple present reëngages, present participle reëngaging, simple past and past participle reëngaged)

present singular third person reëngages · participle present reëngaging · participle past reëngaged · past reëngaged

  1. Dated spelling of re-engage.

    The school year was ended, she had been reëngaged for the next, with many expressions of satisfaction […]

    1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “The Beginning of Vacation”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC, page 162
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    Several of the lately appointed missionaries are destined, with leave of Providence, to join the Karen missions; and the Committee are not without hope of reëngaging for a limited period, if the health of his family permit, the services of Mr. Binney.

    1852, American Baptist Missionary Union, “Maulmain Karen Mission”, in Thirty-Eighth Annual Report: with the Proceedings of the Annual Meetings, […], Boston, Mass.: Missionary Rooms, […], →OCLC, page 56

    The abortion fight we are gearing up for departs from the realm of uneasy compromise and reëngages the clash of absolutes.

    2019 June 5, Jeannie Suk Gersen, “How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2019
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APA

reëngage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re%C3%ABngage

MLA

“reëngage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re%C3%ABngage. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reëngage,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re%C3%ABngage.

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