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Synonyms for re-examine


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ree-ig-zam-in
Phonetic Transcription : ˌri ɪgˈzæm ɪn

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Définition of re-examine

Origin :
  • also reexamine, 1590s, from re- + examine. Related: Re-examined; re-examining.
  • As in overhaul : verb redo, restore
  • As in reconsider : verb think about again
  • As in return : verb go back, turn back
  • As in review : verb go over again
  • As in revise : verb correct, edit
  • As in reexamine : verb go back over
  • As in reread : verb read again
  • As in recrudesce : verb return
  • As in reevaluate : verb reconsider
  • As in rethink : verb reconsider
Example sentences :
  • Never once did anyone have the moral courage to re-examine that old decision.
  • Extract from : « The Lani People » by J. F. Bone
  • It was these well-known facts that induced us to re-examine this question.
  • Extract from : « Colouration in Animals and Plants » by Alfred Tylor
  • But if you wish to re-examine the place, I can of course enable you to do so.
  • Extract from : « Recollections of a Policeman » by William Russell (aka Thomas Waters)
  • You compelled me to face the old problems once more, to re-examine the evidence.
  • Extract from : « A Gamble with Life » by Silas K. Hocking
  • Our counsel did not care to re-examine me; I recognised that it would be useless.
  • Extract from : « Miss Cayley's Adventures » by Grant Allen
  • They turned to their pockets again, and began to re-examine them.
  • Extract from : « The Forty-Five Guardsmen » by Alexandre Dumas
  • It is a retrograde theory which we are asked to re-examine and perhaps accept.
  • Extract from : « Outspoken Essays » by William Ralph Inge
  • Will not chemists be obliged to re-examine much known material by laboratory methods conducted in the dark?
  • Extract from : « The Popular Science Monthly, July, 1900 » by Various
  • However, "from motives of a public nature," the Supreme Court would "re-examine" the grounds of its former decision.
  • Extract from : « The Life of John Marshall Volume 4 of 4 » by Albert J. Beveridge
  • He put that aside now,—it required too great an effort of the reasoning faculty to re-examine.
  • Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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