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re-
pref.
1. Again; anew: rebuild.
2. Backward; back: react.
3. Used as an intensive: refine.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin; see re- in Indo-European roots.]

re-
prefix
1. indicating return to a previous condition, restoration, withdrawal, etc. rebuild renew retrace reunite
2. indicating repetition of an action recopy remarry
[from Latin]
Usage: Verbs beginning with re- indicate repetition or restoration. It is unnecessary to add an adverb such as back or again: This must not occur again (not recur again); we recounted the votes (not recounted the votes again, which implies that the votes were counted three times, not twice)


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The rocks of the Spy-glass re-echoed it a score of times; the whole troop of marsh-birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re- established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.
By re- membering it I have been able to understand many people and things that I was never able to under- stand before.
He must accumu- late information of himself, and meanwhile he re- solved to remain close upon his guard lest those qualities of which he knew nothing should ever- lastingly disgrace him.
 
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