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REJOIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rejoin mean? 

REJOIN (verb)
  The verb REJOIN has 2 senses:

1. join againplay

2. answer backplay

  Familiarity information: REJOIN used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REJOIN (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they rejoin  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it rejoins  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: rejoined  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: rejoined  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: rejoining  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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