refly

R1E1F4L1Y4

verb

To fly again.

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Meanings

verbrefly (third-person singular simple present reflies, present participle reflying, simple past reflew, past participle reflown)

present singular third person reflies · participle present reflying · past reflew · participle past reflown

  1. To fly again.

    Such ambiguity riled Russia's foreign space partners, who were torn between asking IKI to refly Mars '96 with backup instruments or to pull the plug on the mission. "

    1997 June 20, Richard Stone, “SPACE: Russia's Last Shot at Space”, in Science, volume 276, number 5320, →DOI, pages 1780–1782

Origin

From re- + fly.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

flyer
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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

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