reascend

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verb

To ascend again.

“I had forgotten my umbrella, and had to reascend the stairs to find it.”

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbreascend (third-person singular simple present reascends, present participle reascending, simple past and past participle reascended)

present singular third person reascends · participle present reascending · participle past reascended · past reascended

  1. ambitransitiveTo ascend again.

    I had forgotten my umbrella, and had to reascend the stairs to find it.

    1 more example

    […] to reascend the place from whence they came, and rejoin that Substance from whence they were discerped […]

    1738, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishascend
  7. Englishreascend

From re- + ascend.

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Chicago

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