replant
Americanverb (used with object)
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replants,
present (3rd person singular)
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replanted,
past participle, past
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replanting
present participle
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to plant again.
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to cover again with plants, sow with seeds, etc..
After the drought, we had to replant the south lawn.
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to transfer (a plant) from one soil or container to another.
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Surgery. to reattach, as a severed arm, finger, or toe, especially with the use of microsurgery to reconnect nerves and blood vessels.
verb
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to plant again
she replanted the bulbs that the dog had dug up
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to reattach (a severed limb or part) by surgery
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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replantsimple
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replantssimple
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have replantedperfect
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has replantedperfect
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am replantingprogressive
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are replantingprogressive
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is replantingprogressive
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have been replantingperfect progressive
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has been replantingperfect progressive
Past
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replantedsimple
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had replantedperfect
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was replantingprogressive
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were replantingprogressive
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had been replantingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of replant
Example Sentences
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"We will have to replant and rebuild a different kind of forest because we must adapt to the structural conditions of climate change," he said this week.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Since lettuce has about a 30-day growing cycle, farmers that are plowing their crops back into the ground are weighing whether to replant or dial back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Efforts to replant acacias are underway, Tayeb of the Khartoum forestry administration said, but seedlings grow slowly and can take years to mature.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
My intent was to suggest that given climate change, wildland proximity and the horror of wind-driven blazes that routinely devour neighborhoods, we need to be smart about how and where we rebuild and replant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
She still moved slowly compared to her grandparents, but there were fewer “leaners” that she needed to replant.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
That’s why whenever I think about habitat fragmentation, I also think of the conservation group Saving Nature, which buys up farmland and other degraded lands, replants them, and recreates habitats and migration corridors.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2024
He uses hand clippers to trim back the plants trying to grow outside the lawn borders, and replants those cuttings to fill in areas that are looking thin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
One small business in East Lothian, run by a 14-year-old boy and his dad, hire trees to local customers and then replants them in early January.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2022
Mayfield doesn’t merely reuse wood; she, symbolically at least, replants it.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022
A boy feeds me with armfuls of newly-dug-up plants, two men are digging-in the cooling cow-dung at the farther end, and another carries away the divided plants tray by tray, and carefully replants them.
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Gertrude Jekyll
After a short stint living in Florida, Ditka and his wife, Diana, replanted roots in Chicago at the end of 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
It had replanted, and injected trees with OTC, and everything else.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Researchers ultimately hope that if resistant trees emerge, they could eventually be replanted in forests and help restore the species to its natural ecosystem.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
By the time the market recovers, the thinking goes, the replanted vines will be capable of producing higher-value grapes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2025
Much of the crop was ruined and would have to be replanted.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Dan Halden, a spokesperson for the city’s Bureau of Street Services, did not immediately respond Wednesday to questions about the total cost of the tree losses or the replanting process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
Both initiatives were designed to support replanting the hundreds of thousands of trees across Aberdeenshire lost to Storms Arwen and Corrie.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
As replanting efforts continue, locals and experts are pushing to change the type of trees in their forests.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
With so many people working together, we finish harvesting and replanting by noon.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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