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REJOIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rejoin mean?
• REJOIN (verb)
The verb REJOIN has 2 senses:
Familiarity information: REJOIN used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: rejoined
Past participle: rejoined
-ing form: rejoining
Sense 1
Meaning:
Join again
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "rejoin" is one way to...):
fall in; get together; join (become part of; become a member of a group or organization)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Answer back
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
come back; rejoin; repay; retort; return; riposte
Hypernyms (to "rejoin" is one way to...):
answer; reply; respond (react verbally)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sentence example:
They rejoin that there was a traffic accident
Context examples
“I am very happy to receive such support in my opinion, sir,” he rejoined.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Sherlock Holmes was as good as his word, for about one o’clock he rejoined us in the Colonel’s smoking-room.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Look at Major," the other rejoined.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
For my own part, she rejoined, I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"Then you don't like my essay?" he rejoined.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Summerlee rejoined, however, with a sour smile, by saying that he understood that Millbank Prison had been pulled down.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The unnatural pair would need to bind with an affinity similar to that of natural pairs in order to separate and rejoin during DNA operations.
(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)
And with that he turned on his heel and rejoined the other two.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
This agent also inhibits poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases, enzymes involved in the rejoining of DNA strand breaks induced by radiation or chemotherapy.
(Niacinamide, NCI Thesaurus)
"To be sure," rejoined his brother; "it would be a thousand pities to throw away such a chance of fun."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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