REUNITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reunite mean? 

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

1. have a reunion; unite again

2. unify again, as of a country

  Familiarity information: REUNITE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REUNITE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reunite    ... he / she / it reunites   
Past simple: reunited   
Past participle: reunited   
-ing form: reuniting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have a reunion; unite again

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

get together; meet (get together socially or for a specific purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

reunion (the act of coming together again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unify again, as of a country

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

reunify; reunite

Context example:

Will Korea reunify?

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

unify; unite (act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Now that they were reunited, Dorothy and her friends spent a few happy days at the Yellow Castle, where they found everything they needed to make them comfortable.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

They were under a yoke,—I could free them: they were scattered,—I could reunite them: the independence, the affluence which was mine, might be theirs too.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The formula consists of three parts: (1) a pair of lovers are jarred apart; (2) by some deed or event they are reunited; (3) marriage bells.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

How fond we were of one another, when she did come out at last; and what a state of bliss I was in, when we took Jip out of the plate-warmer, and restored him to the light, sneezing very much, and were all three reunited!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was very fetching to make the girl propose in the course of being reunited, and Martin discovered, bit by bit, other decidedly piquant and fetching ruses.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My business is to live without him now: nothing so absurd, so weak as to drag on from day to day, as if I were waiting some impossible change in circumstances, which might reunite me to him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Thus, the pair of lovers could be jarred apart by misunderstood motives, by accident of fate, by jealous rivals, by irate parents, by crafty guardians, by scheming relatives, and so forth and so forth; they could be reunited by a brave deed of the man lover, by a similar deed of the woman lover, by change of heart in one lover or the other, by forced confession of crafty guardian, scheming relative, or jealous rival, by voluntary confession of same, by discovery of some unguessed secret, by lover storming girl's heart, by lover making long and noble self-sacrifice, and so on, endlessly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)