REGROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regroup mean? 

• REGROUP (verb)
  The verb REGROUP has 2 senses:

1. organize anew, as after a setback

2. reorganize into new groups

  Familiarity information: REGROUP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGROUP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they regroup    ... he / she / it regroups   
Past simple: regrouped   
Past participle: regrouped   
-ing form: regrouping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organize anew, as after a setback

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

regroup; reorganise; reorganize

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

form; organise; organize (create (as an entity))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Reorganize into new groups

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

group (arrange into a group or groups)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Is a subdivision of the peripheral nervous system (organ system subdivision), which consists of subdivisions of two or more nerves, which are interconnected with one another to form an network through which nerve fibers of the constituent nerves of the plexus become regrouped; together with other nerve plexuses and nerves, it constitutes the peripheral nervous system.

(Nerve Plexus, NCI Thesaurus/UWDA)