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  • verb Present participle of reclose.

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Examples

  • The memories came pouring in, my blood suddenly churning, as I pushed through the membrane of the blue pearl encapsulating me, feeling its slimy walls reclosing in my wake.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • The memories came pouring in, my blood suddenly churning, as I pushed through the membrane of the blue pearl encapsulating me, feeling its slimy walls reclosing in my wake.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • Hamas and Egyptian forces now man the main Salah Eddin gate, most cars and trucks aren't passing through, but pedestrians still in Egypt "scoured (nearly) empty stores for food and consumer products to take back to the Gaza Strip .... in fear of an imminent border reclosing."

    Life in Occupied Gaza 2008

  • ‘I didn’t know but that perhaps somebody might be passing up or down the stairs,’ said Arthur Gride, after looking out at the door and carefully reclosing it; ‘or but that your man might have come back and might have been listening outside.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • Critics accuse the stents of causing heart attacks, but fans say the stents' benefit of preventing arteries from reclosing still outweighs their risk.

    FDA Announces Medical Device Plan 2006

  • With deep inspiration he returned, retraversing the garden, reentering the passage, reclosing the door.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Ford scrambled round and flung his shoulder uselessly against the reclosing hatchway.

    The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996

  • Then the sound of the door to the master bedroom opening and reclosing.

    Cold Noses Warm Kisses Stewardson, Dawn 1992

  • The protective spark gaps are used in all high-voltage overhead-line installations which are provided with automatic reclosing.

    8. Protective, control and supervisory systems as important additional equipment for power installations Frank Ponemunski 1991

  • The voltage collapse that follows is eliminated by automatic reclosing.

    8. Protective, control and supervisory systems as important additional equipment for power installations Frank Ponemunski 1991

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