RELEARN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relearn mean? 

• RELEARN (verb)
  The verb RELEARN has 1 sense:

1. learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it

  Familiarity information: RELEARN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELEARN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they relearn    ... he / she / it relearns   
Past simple: relearned   
Past participle: relearned   
-ing form: relearning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

After the accident, he could not walk for months and had to relearn how to walk down stairs

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

acquire; larn; learn (gain knowledge or skills)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

The circuitry starts to relearn and reorganize to become more functional.

(Spinal cord stimulation helps paralyzed people move hands, NIH)

Our ultimate hope is that the results of our experiments will help patients recover from the paralyzing effects caused by strokes and other neurological injuries by informing the strategies they use to ‘relearn’ lost skills.

(Brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories, National Institutes of Health)