re-examine

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From re- +‎ examine.

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re-examine (third-person singular simple present re-examines, present participle re-examining, simple past and past participle re-examined)

  1. (transitive) To examine again.
    Hypernym: examine
    • 2008 December 7, David Samuels, “Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs”, in The New Yorker:
      Making long cross-country drives, Coster-Mullen said, had given him plenty of time to reëxamine the three-dimensional diagram of the bomb that he keeps in his head, like a Buddhist monk contemplating the Karmic wheel.
    • 2012 December 2, Mohhamad Reza Kiani, Relativity Reexamined, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 34:
      Let us now reexamine our quantum and relativity conditions (3.3) and (3.4).
    • 2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, “Guest Columnist”, in Rail, page 52:
      These questions are re-examined by senior management at key stages throughout the project (often known as gateways) at which a decision might be made be modify or even abort a project rather than waste any more money.
  2. (transitive, chiefly British) To question a witness in redirect examination.

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