Reopen
[riː'əʊp(ə)n] or [,ri'opən]
Definition
(v. t. & i.) To open again.
Edited by Clare
Definition
v.t. and v.i. to open again.
Inputed by Leila
Examples
- This healed the breach between the two, never after reopened. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The school reopened next day. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his gigantic client. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- For months afterwards, I every day settled the question finally in the negative, and reopened and reargued it next morning. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I wish certain parts of the house to be reopened, I said, and to be furnished, exactly as they were furnished at this time last year. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To make the matter worse, the church door had reopened, and the aisles were filling: patter, patter, patter, a hundred little feet trotted in. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Thus, in 1893, the litigation was reopened, and a protracted series of stubbornly contested conflicts was fought in the courts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I threw open the window, reopening by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in the bedroom that morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- To-morrow I must see Mr. Betteredge, and give the necessary directions for reopening the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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