reconvert
/ˌɹiːkənˈvɜː(ɹ)t/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who has been reconverted.
Example Sentences
- "Now it could not be expected that so much sea being converted into land by this Judgement by two years labour, and but finished and brought to pass in the 6th year of Henry the Sixth, the same land should be in the very next year, viz. in the 7th year of the same Kings Reign reconverted into sea."
- "About this time the East-Saxons, who as above hath bin said, had expell’d thir Bishop Mellitus, and renounc’d the Faith, were by the means of Oswi thus reconverted."
- "In ancient days the hill had been a beacon station, and it was reconverted to this purpose in time of war."
- "Fifteen engines were reconverted from oil to coal burning, and it is intended to deal similarly with all other such engines."
- "A small room, which had been converted into a laboratory, was now reconverted into chaos. A gas-jet burnt yet among the ruins."
- "The two three-car Chesham sets were re-converted for steam operation, with vacuum-controlled push-and-pull gear in 1940 or 1941, when the last of the old seven-car electric trains began to be withdrawn."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Latin convertōder. Old French convertirbor. Middle English converten English convert English reconvert From re- + convert.