reauthenticate

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verb

To authenticate again.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

verbreauthenticate (third-person singular simple present reauthenticates, present participle reauthenticating, simple past and past participle reauthenticated)

present singular third person reauthenticates · participle present reauthenticating · participle past reauthenticated · past reauthenticated

  1. To authenticate again.

    Later he would have the original reauthenticated and resell it in New York.

    2015 June 25, Jonathon Keats, “‘Master Thieves’ and ‘The Art of the Con’”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Medieval Latinauthenticō
  7. Englishauthenticate
  8. Englishreauthenticate

From re- + authenticate.

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APA

reauthenticate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reauthenticate

MLA

“reauthenticate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reauthenticate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reauthenticate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reauthenticate.

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