reread
Americanverb (used with object)
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rereads,
present (3rd person singular)
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reread,
past participle, past
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rereading
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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rereadsimple
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rereadssimple
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have rereadperfect
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has rereadperfect
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am rereadingprogressive
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are rereadingprogressive
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is rereadingprogressive
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have been rereadingperfect progressive
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has been rereadingperfect progressive
Past
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rereadsimple
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had rereadperfect
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was rereadingprogressive
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were rereadingprogressive
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had been rereadingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of reread
Explanation
When you reread something, you read it for a second (or third, or fourth) time. You may want to reread a book for school to make sure you understand the material before a big test. If you read the back of a cereal box every morning at breakfast, you'll reread the same text again and again. And, if you reread your chemistry notes a few times before a quiz, it'll help you get a good grade. You probably have a favorite book that you reread every once in a while too. Sometimes people use this word as a noun: "Will you give my story a reread before I submit it to the literary magazine?"
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Example Sentences
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Advocates say an offbeat pastime can tempt a glassy-eyed recruiter to reread your application.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
He even thinks the tech could get people to reread old favorites: "Now is the time to maybe dive into areas where it was really hard to do in the past."
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
I used this as an excuse to reread his autobiography, which is frequently hilarious, and tried to revisit all his recent interviews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Mock, who reread The Lord of the Rings every year from fourth grade through ninth grade, has simpler dreams: “a hobbit hole out in the countryside, and as little as possible.”
From Slate ● May 28, 2026
“Dr. Zinchenko told me she had just reread it. I’ll bet that’s where she got the idea for this whole game.”
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
Here, Henry discusses her writing process, an author she rereads every year and the meaning behind the Taylor Swift needle-drop in “People We Meet on Vacation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
Even on rereads, which I try to do every year, I find my heart racing and my palms sweating within a hundred pages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
One reader noted that he bought the books back in the 1970s and rereads them all about once a decade.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
There is a favorite book of Kelly’s that he has said he rereads at key moments of his career.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2018
Max eats a second ham sandwich and rereads a comic book, and sheets of yellow flowers glow in the fields, and Jutta wonders if any of them grow over the bones of her brother.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Assuming you aren’t too busy rereading Patel’s children’s book, my colleagues have some ideas for how to spend the rest of your evening:
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026
On my recent rereading of “The Secret Garden,” I was delighted by the moment when Mary, initially pale and peevish and uninterested in her breakfast, begins wandering the grounds with a jump rope in hand.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Rowling series for themselves—often rereading, committing passages to memory and challenging one another to answer esoteric trivia questions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
I grew up in Los Angeles a hopeless romantic with my head permanently tilted toward the sky and a copy of “Romeo and Juliet” worn from rereading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
So, it occurred to me that I've been spending a lot of time thinking about you and rereading your emails and trying to make you laugh.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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