reunderstand

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verb

To reach a new or renewed understanding.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbreunderstand (third-person singular simple present reunderstands, present participle reunderstanding, simple past and past participle reunderstood)

present singular third person reunderstands · participle present reunderstanding · participle past reunderstood · past reunderstood

  1. To reach a new or renewed understanding.

    A large part of the weekend service is designed to help people reunderstand who God is.

    1996, G. A. Pritchard, Willow Creek Seeker Services: Evaluating a New Way of Doing Church, Baker Books, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    But as I came to know each of them in the confines of this room, I began to reunderstand that each man's humanity and capacity to love expresses itself in different forms.

    2007, Brian Keenan, “The Tollund Men”, in Michael Marland, editor, Ideas, Insights and Arguments: A Non-fiction Collection, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 227

    It seemed to me like I either had to radically reunderstand the men on this hilltop or I had to acknowledge the power of a place like this to change men.

    2010, Sebastian Junger, War, Twelve, →ISBN

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APA

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MLA

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

Chicago

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

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