remount

American  

[ree-mount, ree-mount, ree-mount] / riˈmaʊnt, ˈriˌmaʊnt, riˈmaʊnt /

verb (used with or without object)

1. to mount again; reascend.

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noun

1. a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.

remount British  

verb

1. to get on (a horse, bicycle, etc) again

2. (tr) to mount (a picture, jewel, exhibit, etc) again

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noun

1. a fresh horse, esp (formerly) to replace one killed or injured in battle

Other Word Forms

• unremounted
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of remount

1325–75; Middle English remounten < Old French remonter. See re-, mount ¹

Example Sentences

One wonders why she would agree to remount a production that's seemingly the vile extension of a lifelong trauma, and that’s one question Egoyan refuses to answer explicitly.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025

Try to remount a 16th-century Korean painting with her best 21st-century guess of what its original mounting would’ve looked like — and risk erasing a troubled history?

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

Besides teaching at USC film school, Townsend hopes to remount his autobiographical one-man stage show that he performed in Berkeley but was cut short by the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023

Following the well-received debut of the duo’s “Playboy,” the Abbey staged a remount that triggered litigation over copyright issues, later settled.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2022

“Because your father thinks you’ll be safer on a gelding, and so do I. Now remount and let me see a collected canter.”

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks