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reexamine

Other forms: reexamined; reexamining; reexamines

To reexamine something is to consider or inspect it again. A detective might need to go back and reexamine the scene of a crime several times during her investigation.

A scientist who's studying an unfamiliar bacteria will examine it, and then reexamine it again and again. And, if you still have an earache a week after starting antibiotics, your doctor may want to reexamine you. Whenever you take another careful look at something, you reexamine it. The verb reexamine adds the "again" prefix re- to examine, from the Latin examinare, "to test, try, consider, or ponder."

Definitions of reexamine
  1. verb
    look at again; examine again
    synonyms: review
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    type of:
    analyse, analyze, canvass, delve, examine, parse, study
    consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
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