Meanings
present singular third person re-examines · participle present re-examining · participle past re-examined · past re-examined · alternative reexamine · alternative reëxamine
- transitiveTo examine again.
Let us now reexamine our quantum and relativity conditions (3.3) and (3.4).
2012 December 2, Mohhamad Reza Kiani, Relativity Reexamined, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 343 more examples
At the request of the Minister of Transport, the Commission is reviewing the achievements under the plan up to the end of 1958 and the benefits obtained from it, and is re-examining the course of the plan, with particular reference to the next five years "related to the future size of railway system needed in view of current economic developments and future expected requirements."
1959 February 28, “Re-Appraisal of Modernisation Plans”, in Railway Magazine, page 73Making long cross-country drives, Coster-Mullen said, had given him plenty of time to reëxamine the three-dimensional diagram of the bomb that he keeps in his head, like a Buddhist monk contemplating the Karmic wheel.
2008 December 7, David Samuels, “Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs”, in The New YorkerThese questions are re-examined by senior management at key stages throughout the project (often known as gateways) at which a decision might be made be modify or even abort a project rather than waste any more money.
2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, “Guest Columnist”, in Rail, page 52 - UKtransitiveTo question a witness in redirect examination.
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Englishexamine
- Englishre-examine
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 再調查, 再调查
- 再調查to examine again
- 再调查 (zài diǎochá)to examine again
- 覆審 /覆审 (fùshěn)to examine again
- 复审 (fùshěn)to examine again
Czech přezkoušet
- přezkoušetto examine again
Finnish tarkastella, tutkia uudelleen
- tarkastellato examine again
- tutkia uudelleento examine again
German nachprüfen
- nachprüfento examine again
Scottish Gaelic ath-cheasnaich
- ath-cheasnaichto examine again
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with re-examine
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