reread

American  

[ree-reed, ree-reed] / riˈrid, ˈriˌrid /

verb (used with object)

reread, rereading

1. to read (something) again.

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noun

1. the act of reading something again.

reread British  

/ riːˈriːd /

verb

1. to read (something) again

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Etymology

Origin of reread

re- + read ¹

Example Sentences

It simply means getting your bearings before you turn on the heat: chopping vegetables and herbs, measuring ingredients, rereading the recipe once more with a clear head.

From Salon

Rowling series for themselves—often rereading, committing passages to memory and challenging one another to answer esoteric trivia questions.

From The Wall Street Journal

This year, craving a little more calm and clarity, and a deeper sense of presence, I reread Michael A. Singer’s “The Untethered Soul.”

From The Wall Street Journal

He seems to have taken it not as a critique but as a field guide to the clientele he sought; he reread the book regularly throughout his life.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I read and reread Thucydides,” the British novelist and politician John Buchan recalled in his memoir of World War I, “for he also had lived among crumbling institutions.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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