REPROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reprocess mean? 

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

1. use again after processing

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPROCESS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reprocess    ... he / she / it reprocesses   
Past simple: reprocessed   
Past participle: reprocessed   
-ing form: reprocessing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Use again after processing

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

recycle; reprocess; reuse

Context example:

We must recycle the cardboard boxes

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

apply; employ; use; utilise; utilize (put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose)

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

rehash (present or use over, with no or few changes)

reclaim; recover (reuse (materials from waste products))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

A reprocessed single-use device that is intended to contact normally sterile tissue or body spaces during use.

(Critical Reprocessed Single-Use Device, NCI Thesaurus)

Jack Wilson, a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, led a team that reprocessed data collected from 2002 to 2009 by the neutron spectrometer instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)