reencounter

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A form of re-encounter — A second or subsequent encounter

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounreencounter (plural reencounters)

plural reencounters

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of re-encounter.
verbreencounter (third-person singular simple present reencounters, present participle reencountering, simple past and past participle reencountered)

present singular third person reencounters · participle present reencountering · participle past reencountered · past reencountered

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of re-encounter.

    How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa.

    1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 243–244

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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

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