Definitions

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  • verb To break again.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ break

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Examples

  • So they resolved to not "stay broken," to hold out as long as they could, provide as little real information as possible, not be used for propaganda and make the North Vietnamese "rebreak" them each time.

    Fraters Libertas 2009

  • By the time they wheeled him into the OR, his bones had already started to reknit, much to the amazement of the medical staff, who were then forced to rebreak and set the radius and ulna of both forearms.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • If the first punch didn't rebreak my almost-healed rib, the second definitely did.

    Hi-Ya! Jason Henry McCormick 2010

  • By the time they wheeled him into the OR, his bones had already started to reknit, much to the amazement of the medical staff, who were then forced to rebreak and set the radius and ulna of both forearms.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • Setting it will probably require that we rebreak it.

    Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008

  • Setting it will probably require that we rebreak it.

    Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008

  • Setting it will probably require that we rebreak it.

    Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008

  • “They have to rebreak my hand and put pins in to hold it,” she says.

    Cheer! Kate Torgovnick 2008

  • Setting it will probably require that we rebreak it.

    Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008

  • “They have to rebreak my hand and put pins in to hold it,” she says.

    Cheer! Kate Torgovnick 2008

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