reconvert

[ ree-kuhn-vurt ]

verb (used with object)

1. to convert again.
2. to change back to a previous form, opinion, character, or function.

reconvert

/ ˌriːkənˈvɜːt; ˌriːkənˈvɜːʃən /

verb

1. to change (something) back to a previous state or form
2. to bring (someone) back to his or her former religion
3. See conversion
   property law to convert back (property previously converted) into its original form, as land into money and vice versa See also conversion

Derived Forms

• reconversion, noun

Other Words From

• recon·version noun
• recon·verter noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of reconvert¹

First recorded in 1605–15; re- + convert ¹

Example Sentences

To reconvert it into carbonate, moisten with a few drops of ammonic carbonate solution, and dry in a water-oven.

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Efforts were accordingly made to reconvert the converted districts and to bring some amount of pressure to bear on the clergy.

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The mother offered her whole fortune if her son would consent to hear one mass; she believed that one mass would reconvert him.

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Industry has neither the capital nor the energy to reconvert itself to peace productivity.

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To reconvert and instruct anew a relapsed heathen country was the task which Gregory the Great laid on the willing Augustine.

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