rejumble

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English

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Etymology

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From re- +‎ jumble.

Verb

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rejumble (third-person singular simple present rejumbles, present participle rejumbling, simple past and past participle rejumbled)

  1. (transitive) To jumble again.
    • 1993, Allen Cypher, Daniel Conrad Halbert, Watch what I Do: Programming by Demonstration, page 91:
      This performer has also been turned into a button; its button action is to rejumble itself.
    • 2000, Lynn Messina, Biotechnology, page 164:
      Today, though, Dr. Jefferson's nonprofit research center, known as Cambia, is pouring resources into a project to jumble and rejumble the on-off patterns of rice genes, hoping to unleash traits buried in rice []