reenter
/ɹiˈɪntɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cut deeper where the aqua fortis has not bitten sufficiently.
Example Sentences
- "The shuttle reentered the atmosphere."
- "It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades."
- "At least five people appeared briefly on the roof of the building, and squatters could be seen tossing firecrackers and building materials out of a window and shouting obscenities as the police moved into the area. But when officers finally reentered the building about 2 A.M., they found no one."
- "Could this policy have helped to cut the crime rate significantly, especially in areas like New York with disproportionately large concentrations of undocumented and recent immigrants, some of whom were deeply involved in illegal activities? The crackdown could have made a difference if the deportables were in fact expelled, if alien ex-cons who wanted to reenter New York and wreak more havoc could not get back in the country, and if this get-tough policy had the intended effect of deterring unlawful impulses among recent immigrants who were not yet naturalized citizens"
- "As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal."
- "We had to reenter a day's worth of data into the system."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English enter English reenter From re- + enter.