Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To open; unclose.

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

  • transitive verb rare To open; to unclose.

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

  • verb transitive, archaic To open again; to reopen.
  • verb transitive To include once again something that was excluded (a variation of "reinclude").

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin recludere to unclose, open; prefix re- again, back, un- + claudere to shut.

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