reaccompany

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ accompany

Verb[edit]

reaccompany (third-person singular simple present reaccompanies, present participle reaccompanying, simple past and past participle reaccompanied)

  1. To accompany again.
    • 1883, Florence Marryat, The Ghost of Charlotte Cray and Other Stories, page 243:
      I insist, on the other hand, that monsieur's wishes must be complied with, and we must reaccompany him to the top, which we do.
    • 1928, George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, New York, page 49:
      To the intense satisfaction of those of the Mayor's visitors who had gone without luncheon, the police escort was in attendance to reaccompany the beflagged motor-cars “up-town.”
    • 1975, Georges Simenon, The Others, page 46:
      And so, before we separated, in the ever more empty streets where we ended up by hearing only our own footsteps, we would reaccompany each other two or three times.