reroute
Americanverb
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reroutes,
present (3rd person singular)
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rerouted,
past participle, past
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rerouting
present participle
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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reroutesimple
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reroutessimple
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have reroutedperfect
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has reroutedperfect
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am reroutingprogressive
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are reroutingprogressive
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is reroutingprogressive
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have been reroutingperfect progressive
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has been reroutingperfect progressive
Past
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reroutedsimple
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had reroutedperfect
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was reroutingprogressive
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were reroutingprogressive
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had been reroutingperfect progressive
Future
Example Sentences
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Steel plans to invest almost $3 billion on a new mill near Pittsburgh, and wars are forcing airlines to reroute flights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Tribal members and allies formed a group, the Kinest’e Community Coalition, to have a say in the project, protect sacred sites and ultimately reroute the trail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Solid chemical products are generally easier to store or reroute than liquids, which require specialized storage and transportation infrastructure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Instead, the firm agreed to reroute investment to build a LNG plant in Texas and to develop "upstream conventional oil" in the Gulf of Mexico.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
After the Georgia station shut down—he didn’t know the details, but gossip held it had been discovered—they were testing all the lines in order to reroute traffic.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
“The system kind of reroutes your perception to make you feel like you are somewhere else.”
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
Current treatments consist of a series of three open heart surgeries all before the patient's 5th year of life that reroutes oxygenated blood supply to the right ventricle.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
“He’s like, ‘Have you heard of lava dams, where volcanic rocks and lava creates a dam and reroutes the river?’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
But relatively close to its source there is a manmade canal that reroutes some water southward to the Segura River.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
He reroutes, relinquishing his hotel bed for another night at a truck stop.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
The ship departed from Southern California last November and was rerouted to the Middle East after the U.S. led attacks on Iran in February.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
"We do not know if Moonshot notified their customers that their requests were being rerouted to Anthropic and exposed to a third party," the report said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
When shipments through the Strait of Hormuz were disrupted, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates quickly rerouted oil through alternative export routes, helping to limit the initial hit to global supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Stormy weather can shrink the available airspace, meaning traffic has to be restricted and rerouted.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
He diverted a river, then buried the treasure in the river bed, then rerouted the river back to its old path.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
In some cases, rerouting flights has added hours to flight times; in other cases airlines have opted for shorter alternative routes that carry their own risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
A third runway would mean demolishing hundreds of homes, diverting rivers and rerouting a section of the M25 motorway through a tunnel.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Tanker markets remain exceptionally strong, supported by rerouting demand and constrained effective supply, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
"The bigger structural issue for India isn't rerouting capability - it's repair capacity," says Gupta.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
In 1947, the laboratory disbanded East Computing, rerouting all open assignments to West Computing.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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