rewatch

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/ɹiːˈwɒtʃ//ˈɹiːwɒtʃ/

verb

To watch again.

“It's not the best film I've ever seen, but it probably deserves a rewatch.”

OriginEnglish watch ← Middle English wacchen ← Old English wæċċan →
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Meanings

verbrewatch (third-person singular simple present rewatches, present participle rewatching, simple past and past participle rewatched)

present singular third person rewatches · participle present rewatching · participle past rewatched · past rewatched · alternative re-watch

  1. To watch again.

    Meanwhile “Emeralds” itself — danced with the elegiac adagio finale that Balanchine added in 1976 and that Ms. Paul never danced — deepened with rewatching.

    2009 February 3, Alastair Macaulay, “Mining the Hidden Gems of a Balanchine Classic”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
nounrewatch (plural rewatches)

plural rewatches · alternative re-watch

  1. The act of watching something again.

    It's not the best film I've ever seen, but it probably deserves a rewatch.

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Old Englishwæċċan
  7. Middle Englishwacchen
  8. Englishwatch
  9. Englishrewatch

From re- + watch.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 翻看, 重溫 /重温
  • 翻看 (fānkàn)to watch again
  • 重溫 /重温 (chóngwēn)to watch again
Esperanto respekti
  • respektito watch again
Finnish katsoa uudelleen
  • katsoa uudelleento watch again
French reregarder
  • reregarderto watch again
German rewatchen, nocheinmal ansehen
  • rewatchento watch again
  • nocheinmal ansehento watch again
Hungarian újranéz
  • újranézto watch again
Korean 다시 보다, 다시보기
  • 다시 보다 (dasi boda)to watch again
  • 다시보기 (dasibogi)the act of watching something again
Portuguese reassistir
  • reassistirto watch again
Russian смотреть повторно
  • смотреть повторно (smotretʹ povtorno)to watch again
Spanish remirar
  • remirarto watch again

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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