re-examine

See also reexamine, and reëxamine

English

Alternative forms

• reexamine
• reëxamine

Verb

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

1. To examine again.
   • 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. — Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs, David Samuels December, The New Yorker, 15, 2008 [1]

Translations

to examine again

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 再調查, 再调查 (zài diǎochá), 覆審 (cmn), 复审 (cmn) (fùshěn)

• Czech: přezkoušet (cs)

• Finnish: tarkastella (fi); tutkia (fi) uudelleen (fi)
• Manx: aaronsee (gv)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-cheasnaich (gd)