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to reencounter

to reencounter

5.9
To meet someone you know from before after time apart
  • verb
  • /ˌriːɪnˈkaʊntər/
translation icon : reencontrar
  • When he visited his hometown, he was pleased to reencounter the familiar sights and sounds from his youth.

Examples

  • At the museum, I had the chance to reencounter the artwork that had inspired me as a young student.

  • After many years living abroad, she was excited to reencounter her childhood friends at the reunion.

  • By providing opportunities to encounter and reencounter a topic, the teacher also provided a context for communal construction of meaning.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Chapter sixteen enables readers to reencounter elements.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Kim, his murderer, finds his corpse after having killed him, only to reencounter a living Manneret waiting for her in a room.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Despite its extreme commercialization, in disco, the youth of popular classes reencountered the original roots of rhythm and movement.

    Academic text (1991)
  • During the second half of life, in Jung's view, the ego reencounters alienated non-egoic potentials.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The ego, in making the U-turn toward origins, reencounters alienated psychic and spiritual potentials.

    Academic text (1990)
  • I am reminded of this when reencountering Takala's The Trainee—the lone worker.

    Academic text (2012)
  • On returning to India in 1970, the artist settled in Delhi, the new polemic art hub, and reencountered several of her Bombay colleagues as well as the critic Geeta Kapur.

    Academic text (2014)

Synonyms

to relive
vsto reencounter
107 3.7

Feel or imagine a past event again in your mind

refers to meeting or experiencing again in real life rather than mentally
to reconnect
vsto reencounter
86 3.7

Join things or people again after they were apart

means meeting or experiencing again not necessarily restoring a relationship
to revisit
vsto reencounter
26 3.6

To go to a place again after some time

includes meeting people or things again rather than only returning to places
to recapture
vsto reencounter
26 6.0

To bring back a past feeling or quality

focuses on meeting or experiencing someone or something again in reality

Antonyms

1.0

To stay away from something or not do it to stop something bad from happening

Surface Forms

reencounter infinitive
reencountered past participle
reencountering present participle
reencounters third person singular

Morphology

reencounter = encounter (transparent) = re + encounter

This is regular re- prefixation meaning 'again', so a learner who knows 'encounter' can readily infer 'encounter again'.

Etymology

Reencounter breaks into re- 'again' and encounter 'meet', so to reencounter someone is to meet them again after being apart.