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reinstall

verb

Etymology

From re- + install.

  1. derived from *stel-✻
  2. derived from *stallaz✻ — “place, position”
  3. derived from *stall✻
  4. derived from īnstallō — “to install, put in place, establish”
  5. derived from installer
  6. inherited from installen
  7. prefixed as reinstall — “re + install”

Definitions

  1. To install again.

  2. reinstallation

    • I tried removing and reinstalling the software, but the reinstall failed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reinstall. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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