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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
reclose .
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Examples
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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
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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.
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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.
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The flood of maskers recloses behind the ominous passage;
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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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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