Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To attach again, in any sense.

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

  • transitive verb To attach again.

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

  • verb Alternative form of re-attach.

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Examples

  • She was last night recovering in hospital after emergency micro-surgery to "reattach" the index finger on her right hand.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • She was last night recovering in hospital after emergency micro-surgery to "reattach" the index finger on her right hand.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • She was last night recovering in hospital after emergency micro-surgery to "reattach" the index finger on her right hand.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • She was last night recovering in hospital after emergency micro-surgery to "reattach" the index finger on her right hand.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • She was last night recovering in hospital after emergency micro-surgery to "reattach" the index finger on her right hand.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • She was last night recovering in hospital after emergency micro-surgery to "reattach" the index finger on her right hand.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • She was last night recovering in hospital after emergency micro-surgery to "reattach" the index finger on her right hand.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • Then put a snapper at the end, so if they're crowded for space they can cut off your contents anywhere, reattach the snapper, and the story will still retain form.

    Amateur Night 2010

  • That “work,” Freud conjectured, was for the ego to detach itself from the deceased or in his sexual world-view, for the libido to withdraw from the love object so that it could reattach itself to someone else.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • Maybe Nancy needs to lower her Crystal Meth intake or go to Walter Reed to have them reattach the cerebrum that she accidentally threw into the recycle bin during National Be a Moron Week.

    Fool me once, shame on me... 2009

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