REINSTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reinstate mean? 

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

1. restore to the previous state or rank

2. bring back into original existence, use, function, or position

  Familiarity information: REINSTATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REINSTATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reinstate    ... he / she / it reinstates   
Past simple: reinstated   
Past participle: reinstated   
-ing form: reinstating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restore to the previous state or rank

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

reconstruct; restore (return to its original or usable and functioning condition)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reinstate"):

rehabilitate (reinstall politically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

reinstatement (the act of restoring someone to a previous position)

reinstatement (the condition of being reinstated)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bring back into original existence, use, function, or position

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

reestablish; reinstate; restore

Context example:

restore the emperor to the throne

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reinstate"):

redeem (restore the honor or worth of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reinstatement (the condition of being reinstated)

 Context examples 

Used systemically or topically, natural or synthetic Antirheumatic Preparations relieve and control the symptoms of rheumatic diseases (rheumatoid arthritis) by reducing inflammation and pain, or reinstating mobility and function of articulations.

(Antirheumatic Preparation, NCI Thesaurus)

Experimentally reinstating normal expression of SETD1A in adult mice restored the animals’ working memory function.

(Schizophrenia risk gene linked to cognitive deficits in mice, National Institutes of Health)

He has been attempting to curry favour and reinstate himself in the good graces of the captain by carrying tales of the men forward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The term describes the situation in which a constant drug dose elicits increasing effects.The condition is opposite to drug tolerance since less dose of the substance is required to reinstate the initial effect (reverse-tolerance).

(Drug Exposure, NCI Thesaurus)

He had to reinstate himself in all the wonted concerns of his Mansfield life: to see his steward and his bailiff; to examine and compute, and, in the intervals of business, to walk into his stables and his gardens, and nearest plantations; but active and methodical, he had not only done all this before he resumed his seat as master of the house at dinner, he had also set the carpenter to work in pulling down what had been so lately put up in the billiard-room, and given the scene-painter his dismissal long enough to justify the pleasing belief of his being then at least as far off as Northampton.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She rose early, and wrote her letter to Harriet; an employment which left her so very serious, so nearly sad, that Mr. Knightley, in walking up to Hartfield to breakfast, did not arrive at all too soon; and half an hour stolen afterwards to go over the same ground again with him, literally and figuratively, was quite necessary to reinstate her in a proper share of the happiness of the evening before.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)