Synonyms for re-occupying
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : ok-yuh-pahy |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɒk yəˌpaɪ |
Top 10 synonyms for re-occupying Other synonyms for the word re-occupying
- assume again
- balance
- bring back
- carry on
- catch up
- come back
- compensate
- convert
- go on with
- keep on
- keep up
- make good
- obtain again
- occupy again
- offset
- pick up
- reacquire
- reassume
- recapitulate
- recapture
- recommence
- recondition
- recover
- recruit
- recycle
- redeem
- rediscover
- regenerate
- reinstitute
- remodel
- reoccupy
- replevin
- replevy
- repossess
- restart
- restore
- resume
- retake
- retrieve
- return to
- salvage
- take back
- take up
- win back
Définition of re-occupying
Origin :- mid-14c., "to take possession of," also "to take up space or time, employ (someone)," irregularly borrowed from Old French occuper "occupy (a person or place), hold, seize" (13c.) or directly from Latin occupare "take over, seize, take into possession, possess, occupy," from ob "over" (see ob-) + intensive form of capere "to grasp, seize" (see capable). The final syllable of the English word is difficult to explain, but it is as old as the record; perhaps from a modification made in Anglo-French. During 16c.-17c. a common euphemism for "have sexual intercourse with" (sense attested from early 15c.), which caused it to fall from polite usage.
- "A captaine? Gods light these villaines wil make the word as odious as the word occupy, which was an excellent good worde before it was il sorted." [Doll Tearsheet in "2 Henry IV"]
- Related: Occupied; occupying.
- As in recover : verb find again
- As in resume : verb begin again
- As in reassume : verb resume
- As in reoccupy : verb resume
- As in retake : verb resume
- We soon had a curious bit of evidence that Longstreet had finally abandoned the expectation of re-occupying East Tennessee.
- Extract from : « Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 » by Jacob Dolson Cox
- This was to me most unsatisfactory news, for it meant that my difficulties in re-occupying Shakka would be considerably increased.
- Extract from : « Fire and Sword in the Sudan » by Rudolf C. Slatin
- These, we learned later in the night, had succeeded in re-occupying the cross-roads.
- Extract from : « Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 » by Jacob Dolson Cox
Antonyms for re-occupying
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