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REBORN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reborn mean?
• REBORN (adjective)
The adjective REBORN has 2 senses:
1. spiritually reborn or converted
2. restored to new life and vigor
Familiarity information: REBORN used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spiritually reborn or converted
Synonyms:
born-again; reborn
Context example:
a born-again Christian
Similar:
regenerate (reformed spiritually or morally)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Restored to new life and vigor
Synonyms:
reborn; revitalised; revitalized
Context example:
Berlin has been reborn after probably the most intense period of construction since the post-war period.
Similar:
revived (restored to consciousness or life or vigor)
Context examples
All the old fire and passion with which he had written it were reborn in him, and he was swayed and swept away so that he was blind and deaf to the faults of it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Previous detections of clouds by Hubble at the boundary between day and night, where temperatures mercifully fall, have shown that titanium oxide (popular as a sunscreen) and aluminum oxide (the basis for ruby, the gemstone) could also be molecularly reborn on the ultrahot Jupiters' nightsides.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
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