re-form
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of re-form
1300–50; Middle English; originally identical with reform
Example Sentences
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Flying through the mountains, Hig sometimes picks up chatter on the radio from an airport in Grand Junction, Colo. Could this be the place where society is starting to re-form?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The end of the RNA strand remains water-free and can spontaneously re-form new RNA bonds.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2024
It can form, melt and re-form multiple times a season — and exactly how it manifests is different each time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
Once the disk is gone, resonances can break but they cannot re-form.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 22, 2022
He would have been fasting for months while waiting for the sea ice to re-form, but he was still twice as big as the bear that had wrecked them before.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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