reliberate

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ liberate.

Verb

reliberate (third-person singular simple present reliberates, present participle reliberating, simple past and past participle reliberated)

1. To liberate again.
   • 1993, David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman, Brave Men, →ISBN, page 88:

     So Scooter came to visit, and one night, with nothing better to do, he, Dell, Captain Eugene Snedeker (CO of H Company), a couple of other guys, and I decided to reliberate recently liberated Seoul.

   • 2008 -, Martin Dugard, The Training Ground, →ISBN:

     In September 1842, Mexican forces crossed the border at the Rio Grande, took possession of San Antonio, and slaughtered a band of Texans seeking to reliberate the city.

   • 2013, Ch. Rouiller, The Liver: Morphology, Biochemistry, Physiology, →ISBN, page 419:

     In the case of beryllium, they reliberate it little by little to the detriment of the hepatocytes (Aldridge et al., 1949, Cheng, 1956).

Anagrams

• reiterable