reenforce

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A form of re-enforce — To enforce again; to re-emphasize.

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Meanings

verbreenforce (third-person singular simple present reenforces, present participle reenforcing, simple past and past participle reenforced)

present singular third person reenforces · participle present reenforcing · participle past reenforced · past reenforced

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of re-enforce.

    Serious and varied, these stories are written in a fluent, often notional style, a sheen which sometimes reenforces and sometimes blurs their meaning and force.

    1964 October 18, Patrick White, “Meet Miss Docker, Miss Slattery and Some Other Friends”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025
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    “Tai Chi Alpha Tala” was a collaboration for a woma going through motions, from Tai Chi Chuan, the Chinese martial art, with her resultant alpha brain waves transmitted by FM to a synthesizer, triggering preset pentatonic responses, and a tabla player echoing and reenforcing the resultant rhythms.

    1974 December 22, John Rockwell, “EXOTIC CONCERT BY TEITEL BAUM”, in The New York Times

    The slip reenforced the basic idea he seemed to be conveying: that the names of the players mattered less than the fact that they were all now playing on his “team.”

    1975 November 5, Joseph Lelyveld, “Capital Is Asking Who Did What to Whom”, in The New York Times

    The order, which effectively halts the display of the flag virtually anywhere in Iraq, except the United States Embassy, said that flying the flag on buildings in Iraq would only reenforce the anti-American message that the military was "here to oppress the Iraqis."

    2003 April 10, Bernard Weinraub, “Army Seeks to Present Troops as 'Liberators'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

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

From re- + enforce.

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APA

reenforce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reenforce

MLA

“reenforce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reenforce. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reenforce,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reenforce.

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