reread

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ read.

Pronunciation

• Infinitive verb form:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈɹiːd/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• Past verb forms:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈɹɛd/

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• Noun
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːɹiːd/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛd

Verb

reread (third-person singular simple present rereads, present participle rereading, simple past and past participle reread)

1. To read again.
2. To read or interpret in a new way.
   • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 23:

     My first book, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (Seymour 2013), has further contributed to the development of queer ecology, rereading well-known contemporary queer novels and films as environmental polemics and theorizing why such reaadings have not been possible before.

Translations

to read again

• Catalan: rellegir (ca)
• Czech: znovu přečíst
• Danish: genlæse
• Esperanto: relegi
• French: relire (fr)
• Galician: reler
• German: wieder lesen, nochmals lesen
• Irish: athléigh
• Italian: rileggere (it)
• Portuguese: reler (pt)
• Quechua: ñawiykachay, qillqaqhawapay
• Spanish: releer (es)

Noun

reread (plural rereads)

1. The act of reading something again.

   Synonym: rereading

Translations

rereading — see rereading

Anagrams

• Reader, dearer, reader, reared