reënforce

See also: reenforce and re-enforce

English

Verb

reënforce (third-person singular simple present reënforces, present participle reënforcing, simple past and past participle reënforced)

1. Alternative form of re-enforce
   • 1891, William Tecumseh Sherman, chapter 12, in Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, volume 1, page 319:

     Aiming to reach firm ground beyond this bayou, and to leave as little time for our enemy to reënforce as possible, I determined to make a show of attack along the whole front, but to break across the bayou at the two points named, and have general orders accordingly.

2. Alternative form of reinforce
   • 1901, Booker T. Washington, chapter 17, in Up from Slavery: An Autobiography‎^[1], New York: A. L. Burt, →LCCN, page 304:

     On this second visit Mr. Charles W. Hare, a prominent white citizen of Tuskegee, kindly volunteered to accompany me, to reënforce my invitation with one from the white people of Tuskegee and the vicinity.

Anagrams

• conferree, ferrocene