reseal

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Etymology

From re- +‎ seal.

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reseal (third-person singular simple present reseals, present participle resealing, simple past and past participle resealed)

  1. (transitive) To seal (something) again (in any sense of "apply a seal to").
    • 1976 December 18, Allen Young, “Speaking Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 5:
      My CIA file included two first class letters written by me on Liberation News Service stationery and addressed to Moscow. [] I cannot tell from the xerox copies sent to me if the letters were opened at the CIA and the re-sealed and sent out, or if the CIA merely stole them from the mail. Neither letter ever received a response, as far as I can recall.

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