reenter

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Definition of reenter

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To enter again; return into.
    “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.”
    “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.”
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verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To enter again; return into.
    “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.”
    “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.”
  2. (transitive)To enter again; retype, reinput.
    “We had to reenter a day's worth of data into the system.”
  3. (ambitransitive)To cut deeper where the aqua fortis has not bitten sufficiently.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From re- + enter.

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