REPUBLISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does republish mean? 

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

1. publish again

2. revive (a cancelled will or a libel)

  Familiarity information: REPUBLISH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUBLISH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they republish    ... he / she / it republishes   
Past simple: republished   
Past participle: republished   
-ing form: republishing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Publish again

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

The scientist republished his results after he made some corrections

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

print; publish (put into print)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

republication (the act of publishing again)

republication (something that has been published again; a fresh publication (as of a literary work))

republishing (the act of publishing again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Revive (a cancelled will or a libel)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

resurrect; revive (restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

There was another letter from him in the same paper, touching a bridge; there was an advertisement of a collection of similar letters by him, to be shortly republished, in a neat volume, with considerable additions; and, unless I am very much mistaken, the Leading Article was his also.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The result was a full page in a Sunday supplement, filled with photographs and idealized drawings of Marian, with many intimate details of Martin Eden and his family, and with the full text of The Palmist in large type, and republished by special permission of Mackintosh's Magazine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)