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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Bowden-Kerby said they can't replant all the lost reefs of Tuvalu, but they can protect some heat-resistant corals.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The earliest he can replant is 2029, he said, to ensure parasites from the burned wood don’t affect his saplings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"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
It includes an outdoor space that, for reasons, Carrie is obligated to replant from scratch.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
They moved up the steep hills on either side of the new lake to rebuild their homes and replant their crops.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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
I talked to a farmer at the farmers market and he said he always pulls the plants and replants and he had no idea what would grow.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2021
The trees I planted in 1947, I started grafting in 1950, to Nanking, Meiling, and Kuling, and finished this spring, except for a few replants.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Price has replanted some trees and installed buffer strips of grass and flowers between the ploughed farmland and the river.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
The Weisses hired garden specialists to review decades-old photos of the Penguin Coffee Shop to determine which varieties of flowers decorated the front of the restaurant, then they replanted them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Although Weyerhaeuser’s hardwood forests in New England and West Virginia are logged selectively and naturally regenerate, its coniferous timberlands in the South and Pacific Northwest are clear-cut and replanted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
It had replanted, and injected trees with OTC, and everything else.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
They planted themselves in front of him so that he had to step around them, only to find them replanted in his new path.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
Adding to the worries about his bottom line is the existential threat that poor prices will discourage growers from replanting pine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
The solution lies not in indiscriminate tree removal, but careful urban planning, experts say, replanting with non-allergenic species -- and greater transparency around development projects in the capital.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 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
Yet as I looked at the photos of Mo helping out at the refugee camps, rebuilding bombed-out villages, and replanting farms, I couldn't help but think of how that birthplace had suffered over the centuries.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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