Antonyms for re-opens


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ree-oh-puh n
Phonetic Transcription : riˈoʊ pən


Definition of re-opens

Origin :
  • 1733 (transitive), from re- "again" + open (v.). Intransitive sense from 1830. Related: Reopened; reopening.
  • As in pick up : verb improve
  • As in renew : verb start over; refurbish
  • As in resume : verb begin again
  • As in take up : verb begin or start again
  • As in re-create : verb renew
  • As in recondition : verb renew
  • As in reopen : verb continue
  • As in restart : verb continue
  • As in continue : verb begin again; resume
Example sentences :
  • It is not, of course, as delightful as Boswell; but who re-opens Boswell?
  • Extract from : « Books and Characters » by Lytton Strachey
  • It re-opens immediately, and one, generally Muriel, is shot back into the room.
  • Extract from : « Three Men on the Bummel » by Jerome K. Jerome
  • When he re-opens the door, as if he had forgotten something, he finds the picture undisturbed.
  • Extract from : « Kentucky in American Letters, v. 2 of 2 » by John Wilson Townsend
  • He, as it were, re-opens his letter in order to add this charge, and then writes a second conclusion.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles » by Alfred Plummer

Synonyms for re-opens

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