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re-examine

verb
/ˌɹiː.ɪɡˈzæm.ɪn//ˌɹiː.ɪɡˈzam.ɪn/UK/ˌɹi.ɪɡˈzæm.ɪn/CA

Etymology

From re- + examine.

  1. derived from examino
  2. derived from examiner
  3. inherited from examinen
  4. formed as re-examine — “re- + examine”

Definitions

  1. To examine again.

    • Making long cross-country drives, Coster-Mullen said, had given him plenty of time to reëxamine the three-dimensional diagram of the bomb that he keeps in his head, like a Buddhist monk contemplating the Karmic wheel.
    • Let us now reexamine our quantum and relativity conditions (3.3) and (3.4).

  2. To question a witness in redirect examination.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA