unrepeal

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verb

To reverse a repeal; to restore a ruling or law that was repealed.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verbunrepeal (third-person singular simple present unrepeals, present participle unrepealing, simple past and past participle unrepealed)

present singular third person unrepeals · participle present unrepealing · participle past unrepealed · past unrepealed

  1. To reverse a repeal; to restore a ruling or law that was repealed.

    But the one important reform would be to unrepeal Glass Steagall.

    2010, Paul Christopherson, Pants on Fire: Cutting through the Biggest Lies of Twenty-first-Century American Plutocracy, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    Mr. Chairman, the Stark amendment, as I see it, is a last-ditch effort to resurrect the cat, the catastrophic care bill, and to unrepeal the repeal which we just passed.

    1989, Congressional Record

    Therefore it would unrepeal its repeal in the EU Withdrawal Bill.

    2017 December 12, Faisal Islam, “Government scrambles to avoid defeat on EU Withdrawal bill”, in Sky News

Origin

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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