relume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of relume
1595–1605; re- + (il)lume; compare French rallumer, Late Latin relūmināre. See relumine
Example Sentences
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Ever so slowly, Con Edison found enough of it to relume sections of the city.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chrysler, which insists that it cannot afford higher wages, wants its Canadian employees to return to work and then relume negotiations in January, as U.S. employees have agreed to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
After hours of darkness, New Yorkers began to wonder of their city, as Othello did of doomed Desdemona, . . . where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume?
From Time Magazine Archive
Thy propped house crumbles; let my arm sustain Its tottering base—thy light is on the wane, Let me relume it.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma
Thy sacred song is like the trump of doom; Yet in thy heart what human sympathies, What soft compassion glows, as in the skies The tender stars their clouded lamps relume!
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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