reopen
/ɹiːˈəʊpən/ verb B1- To open (something) again.
- To open again.
He/she/it reopens · Past reopened · Past participle reopened · -ing form reopening
Verb forms
- Base form
- reopen
- He/she/it
- reopens
- Past
- reopened
- Past participle
- reopened
- -ing form
- reopening
From the library
It is thus that a wounded man trembles instinctively at the approach of the finger to his wound until it be healed, but Villefort’s was one of those that never close, or if they do, only close to reopen more agonizing than ever.
A minute after the door by which the priest had entered reopened, and Monte Cristo appeared.
But the wound remains and will reopen at the first loss.”
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