REASSEMBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reassemble mean? 

• REASSEMBLE (verb)
  The verb REASSEMBLE has 1 sense:

1. assemble once again, after taking something apart

  Familiarity information: REASSEMBLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REASSEMBLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reassemble    ... he / she / it reassembles   
Past simple: reassembled   
Past participle: reassembled   
-ing form: reassembling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assemble once again, after taking something apart

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "reassemble" is one way to...):

assemble; piece; put together; set up; tack; tack together (create by putting components or members together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Once the left-over pieces reassembled, they gave Hygiea its round shape and thousands of companion asteroids.

(ESO Telescope Reveals What Could be the Smallest Dwarf Planet Yet in the Solar System, ESO)

The whole party were but just reassembled in the drawing-room when Mr. Weston made his appearance among them.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This enzyme hydrolyzes triglycerides in plasma, releasing free fatty acids into tissues, where they can be reassembled into triglycerides.

(Metabolic Syndrome Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

But the concerns of the theatre were suspended only for an hour or two: there was still a great deal to be settled; and the spirits of evening giving fresh courage, Tom, Maria, and Mr. Yates, soon after their being reassembled in the drawing-room, seated themselves in committee at a separate table, with the play open before them, and were just getting deep in the subject when a most welcome interruption was given by the entrance of Mr. and Miss Crawford, who, late and dark and dirty as it was, could not help coming, and were received with the most grateful joy.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)