RE-EXAMINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does re-examine mean? 

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

1. question after cross-examination by opposing counsel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RE-EXAMINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they re-examine    ... he / she / it re-examines   
Past simple: re-examined   
Past participle: re-examined   
-ing form: re-examining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Question after cross-examination by opposing counsel

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

re-examine one's witness

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

examine; probe (question or examine thoroughly and closely)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I turned to re-examine Thomas Mugridge’s work.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For the study, the researchers re-examined data collected by a variety of ADHD studies at 23 research sites around the world.

(Brains of Those with ADHD Show Smaller Structures Related to Emotion, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"This discovery forces us to re-examine our models of how stellar-mass black holes form," said LIGO Director Prof. David Reitze from the University of Florida in the US.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The team, led by the University of Maryland's Eleonora Troja made the discovery when they re-examined data from the gamma-ray burst and compared it with the first direct observation of a merger between two neutron stars made in August 2017 by LIGO, NSF's Laser-Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.

(Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision, National Science Foundation)

Based on this hypothesis, Andre Maeder, professor in UNIGE's Faculty of Science is now re-examining the model of the universe, pointing out that the scale invariance of the empty space is also present in the fundamental theory of electromagnetism.

(There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)