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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reclose.

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Examples

  • Paula waits to see if a parent comes out, but the girl slips in and recloses the door without a trace.

    'Magic Words' By Jill McCorkle: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010

  • BOLTON: No. And in fact, a very recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency recloses another series of efforts by the government of Iran to conceal their activities.

    CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2006 2006

  • Enter Madame, pushes the triple door, which recloses heavily, brushes with rapid fingers the holywater sprinkler which that pious old man holds out, and carefully makes a graceful little sign of the cross so as not to spot her ribbons.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • The flood of maskers recloses behind the ominous passage;

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • Enter Madame, pushes the triple door, which recloses heavily, brushes with rapid fingers the holywater sprinkler which that pious old man holds out, and carefully makes a graceful little sign of the cross so as not to spot her ribbons.

    Monsieur, Madame, and Bebe — Complete Gustave Droz 1863

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