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reinscribe en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English inscribe English reinscribe From re- + inscribe.

Meanings

  1. To inscribe again.
  2. To reproduce an idea in a new context or manifestation, typically in a way that reinforces it or extends its influence.
    • This ambivalent anality both parodied national and gendered fantasies of “hardness” at the same time that it drew on dynamics of racial and queer mimesis to reinscribe hegemonic (white/ straight) masculinity. 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:

Forms

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reinscribing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reinscribes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
reinscribed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reinscribed Tense=Past lexicographic