REREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reread mean? 

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

1. read anew; read again

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REREAD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reread    ... he / she / it rereads   
Past simple: reread   
Past participle: reread   
-ing form: rereading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Read anew; read again

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

He re-read her letters to him

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

read (interpret something that is written or printed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

As soon as she went to her room, she got out her papers, and carefully reread every one of her stories.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then I reread it very carefully.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Slowly faith came back to her, and she reread the letter carefully.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I read and reread her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel’s arm bared to drive me from all hope.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He reread the letter adoringly, dwelling over her handwriting, loving each stroke of her pen, and in the end kissing her signature.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As few brothers are complimented by having their letters carried about in their sister's pockets, read and reread diligently, cried over when short, kissed when long, and treasured carefully, we will not hint that Amy did any of these fond and foolish things.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On rereading your letter it seems to us that you are laboring under the misapprehension that we pay for unsolicited manuscripts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)