RE-ENTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does re-enter mean? 

• RE-ENTER (verb)
  The verb RE-ENTER has 1 sense:

1. enter again

  Familiarity information: RE-ENTER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RE-ENTER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they re-enter    ... he / she / it re-enters   
Past simple: re-entered   
Past participle: re-entered   
-ing form: re-entering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter again

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

You cannot re-enter the country with this visa

Hypernyms (to "re-enter" is one way to...):

come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into (to come or go into)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

reentry (the act of entering again)

 Context examples 

They all attended in the hall to see him mount his horse, and immediately on re-entering the breakfast-room, Catherine walked to a window in the hope of catching another glimpse of his figure.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We re-entered the room which we had left so tumultuously ten minutes before.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Saturn will re-enter Aquarius late on December 16, 2020, and stay until March 7, 2023.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He re-entered the log-house and set about counting up the stores as if nothing else existed.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He re-entered, pale and very gloomy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

What did she do on re-entering her father’s house?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I knew, also, that weapons would not come in amiss, and I re-entered Wolf Larsen’s state-room to get his rifle and shot-gun.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He had served, as he was proud to say, in the last of our ships which had been chased out of the Mediterranean in ’97, and in the first which had re-entered it in ’98.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scientists are monitoring a defunct Chinese space station that is expected to fall to Earth around the end of the month, the largest manmade object to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in a decade.

(Scientists Track Chinese Space Station as It Falls to Earth, VOA)

He talked more at dinner than was usual with him; asked his mother (off duty, from the moment of our re-entering the house) whether he was not growing too old for a bachelor; and once looked at Agnes so, that I would have given all I had, for leave to knock him down.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)