Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To appear again or anew; return to sight or apprehension; be seen again, in either the same or a different example.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To appear again.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To appear again.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb appear again

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

re- +‎ appear

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Examples

  • But this impossible dream of re-inflating the housing bubble and making all the wealth reappear is going to die hard.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Endless Dream of Re-inflating the Bubble 2009

  • What was the horror of the editor, on the following day, to see the expression reappear in his apology as "bottle-scarred"!

    The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898

  • And as they ` ve gone back and seen his name reappear in some of those earlier statements from Joran, some of those earlier statements from Satish and Deepak, they wanted to go back, and check it out, and make sure they knew where he was when Natalee disappeared, because, as my sources have told me tonight, he left that shift early at the Holiday Inn and couldn ` t be accounted for after that, and they really wanted to tighten that up.

    CNN Transcript May 22, 2006 2006

  • Its intention, however, was, this time, merely to shew me the way, which was not the way of the sonata, for this was an unpublished work of Vinteuil in which he had merely amused himself, by an allusion which was explained at this point by a sentence in the programme which one ought to have been reading simultaneously, in making the little phrase reappear for a moment.

    The Captive 2003

  • Someone mentioned something about Bendis takes Jessica Jones along with him to 'New Avengers'...why not, he retconned/shoehorned her into Avengers continuity so much so that in Secret Invasion, she's one of the older heoroes who 'reappear'...can we have both versions revealed as Skrulls already and kill them off?

    Comics You Should Own flashback – Alias | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • If you eject the volume without emptying the trash, those invisible not-yet-deleted files are still stored on the volume, and they 'reappear' in the Trash when you mount the volume.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

  • Rick is next, and he names two other mutants he would like to "reappear" in the X-books.

    Comic Book Resources 2009

  • If you eject the volume without emptying the trash, those invisible not-yet-deleted files are still stored on the volume, and they 'reappear' in the Trash when you mount the volume.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

  • I can apparently make the videos "reappear" by quitting the presentation and re-opening it.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

  • If you eject the volume without emptying the trash, those invisible not-yet-deleted files are still stored on the volume, and they 'reappear' in the Trash when you mount the volume.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

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