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reanswer en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɹiːˈɑːnsə(ɹ)/
• /ɹiːˈænsə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From re- + answer.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To answer again or anew.
   • It mingles thoughts on pitching, producing and getting an agent with more light-hearted bits, like reanswering questions sent to the regular Walter Scott column in Parade magazine (in which momentous topics, like the most popular celebrity features demanded by plastic surgery patients in Beverly Hills, are tackled). 2007 August 4, Michael Cieply, “The Screenwriter as God, Examining His Creations”, in New York Times:
2. To repay, compensate, or make amends for.
   • Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under. 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:

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