REOPERATE

Etymology

Verb

reoperate (third-person singular simple present reoperates, present participle reoperating, simple past and past participle reoperated)

(intransitive, surgery) to operate (surgically) again (on the same thing as a previous operation).

(intransitive) to begin to operate or function again.

(transitive, manufacturing) to bring back (something) into operation.

AntonĂ­ and Consuela reoperated the factory's candy machine that had been stored in the storage room for over a decade.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

13 November 2024

OSTENSIBLE

(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so; “for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent”; “the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies”; “the ostensible truth of their theories”; “his seeming honesty”


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