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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.
Antonà 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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