regrate

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verb

to grate again

“The Parmesan cheese needs to be regrated into smaller bits.”

OriginFrench regratter →
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Meanings

verbregrate (third-person singular simple present regrates, present participle regrating, simple past and past participle regrated)

present singular third person regrates · participle present regrating · participle past regrated · past regrated

  1. to grate again

    The Parmesan cheese needs to be regrated into smaller bits.

  2. To purchase goods from a market in order to resell them at the same (or nearby) market at an inflated price.
  3. businessTo remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
  4. To offend; to shock.

    whose clothing may regrate the eye

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Origin

  1. Frenchregratter“to scrape again”
  2. Englishregrate

From French regratter (“to scrape again”). Etymologically equivalent to, or by surface analysis, re + grate.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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