reintegrate

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verb

To integrate again or in a different manner.

OriginEnglish integrate ← Middle English re- ← Old French re- →
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Meanings

verbreintegrate (third-person singular simple present reintegrates, present participle reintegrating, simple past and past participle reintegrated)

present singular third person reintegrates · participle present reintegrating · participle past reintegrated · past reintegrated

  1. To integrate again or in a different manner.

    So lawyers started filing separate asylum requests for the children, arguing that reintegrating in countries they barely knew, after spending their childhood or adolescence in Belgium, would not only be impossible but would expose them to serious risks.

    2020 August 5, Francesca Spinelli, “Meet David: born in France, raised in Belgium, facing removal to the DRC”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2021
  2. To restore something to a state of integration.

Origin

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

From re- + integrate.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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