re-examine
verbUK /ˌɹiː.ɪɡˈzam.ɪn/ · CA, US /ˌɹi.ɪɡˈzæm.ɪn/
Etymology From re- + examine.
1
To examine again.
- At the request of the Minister of Transport, the Commission is reviewing the achievements under the plan up to the end of 1958 and the benefits obtained from it, and is re-examining the course of the plan, with particular reference to the next five years "related to the future size of railway system needed in view of current economic developments and future expected requirements."1959 February 23, “Re-Appraisal of Modernisation Plans”, in Railway Magazine, page 73:
- Making long cross-country drives, Coster-Mullen said, had given him plenty of time to reëxamine the three-dimensional diagram of the bomb that he keeps in his head, like a Buddhist monk contemplating the Karmic wheel.2008 December 7, David Samuels, “Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs”, in The New Yorker:
2 more examples
- Let us now reexamine our quantum and relativity conditions (3.3) and (3.4).2012 December 2, Mohhamad Reza Kiani, Relativity Reexamined, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 34:
- These questions are re-examined by senior management at key stages throughout the project (often known as gateways) at which a decision might be made be modify or even abort a project rather than waste any more money.2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, “Guest Columnist”, in Rail, page 52:
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UK To question a witness in redirect examination.
- Derived terms
- reexamination