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re-establish en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + establish.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of reestablish.
   alt of reestablish
   • For several months after the repair of the track the lines were steam-operated, but the premium put on steam rolling stock in Germany made it desirable to re-establish electric operation as far as possible with existing stock; [...]. 1941 June, “Notes and News: Warsaw Electric Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 277:
   • He ſent a phyſician to viſit him, who having given it as his opinion, that the young Engliſhman required nothing but reſt and proper diet to re-eſtablish his health, Mr. Steele then ſent for the landlord of the houſe where Carr and he were quartered, deſiring that he would immediately give them a more convenient apartment, and let the young man have that particular diet which the doctor recommended; […] 1789 May 27, [John Moore], “A Letter from the Baronet to the Honourable Mr. N⁠⸺”, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, pages 254–255:
   • The previous station at the Cambridgeshire town closed in September 1965, and NR Anglia Route Director Ellie Burrows said: "Providing a new station will re-establish that relationship with the Soham community that was lost in the 1960s, [...]." 2020 May 20, “Plan submitted for £18.6 million station at Soham”, in Rail, page 21:
   • He is now perhaps sorry for what he has done, and anxious to re-establish a character. 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 206:

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