reunderstand
English
Etymology
re- + understand
Verb
reunderstand (third-person singular simple present reunderstands, present participle reunderstanding, simple past and past participle reunderstood)
- To reach a new or renewed understanding.
- 2007, Brian Keenan, “The Tollund Men”, in Michael Marland, editor, Ideas, Insights and Arguments: A Non-fiction Collection, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 227:
- But as I came to know each of them in the confines of this room, I began to reunderstand that each man's humanity and capacity to love expresses itself in different forms.
- 2010, Sebastian Junger, War, Twelve, →ISBN:
- It seemed to me like I either had to radically reunderstand the men on this hilltop or I had to acknowledge the power of a place like this to change men.
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