reinscribe

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English

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Etymology

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From re- +‎ inscribe.

Verb

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reinscribe (third-person singular simple present reinscribes, present participle reinscribing, simple past and past participle reinscribed)

  1. To inscribe again.
  2. (sociology) To reproduce an idea in a new context or manifestation, typically in a way that reinforces it or extends its influence.
    • 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
      This ambivalent anality both parodied national and gendered fantasies of “hardness” at the same time that it drew on dynamics of racial and queer mimesis to reinscribe hegemonic (white/ straight) masculinity.

Spanish

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Verb

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reinscribe

  1. inflection of reinscribir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative