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🔪 To grind again ⚡ To reconnect electrically 🧘 To calm again
to reground

to reground

7.8
To help someone feel calm and focused again
  • verb
  • /rɪˈɡraʊnd/
translation icon : recentrar
  • When she felt overwhelmed, her coach helped her reground her focus with a series of calming techniques.

A routine at bedtime safety reground me.

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Examples

  • We need to pull away and get regrounded, take some deep breaths and figure out how to respond.

    Evan Carmichael

  • I did that experiment to reground myself in the essential and to determine what I did need.

  • We need to pull away and get regrounded, take some deep breaths and figure out how to respond.

    Evan Carmichael

  • The Constitution that emerged from the Philadelphia Convention in September 1787 was an attempt to reground the Union in the principles of 1776.

    Academic text (1991)

  • After a long day at work, I took a moment to reground myself by practicing deep breathing.

  • During the meditation session, we learned how to reground by visualizing a peaceful place.

Synonyms

to restore
vsto reground
234 3.8

Make someone feel healthy and full of energy again

help someone become calm and mentally stable rather than generally renewed
to recenter
vsto reground
  • US
1 5.3

To become calm and focused again after being upset or distracted

help another person become calm and focused using calming techniques
to recompose
vsto reground
1 5.7

Make yourself calm again after being upset

help someone else become calm rather than doing it alone
to regather
vsto reground
4.6

To get your calm and thoughts back after you feel upset or shocked

help someone achieve calm and mental stability rather than only collecting thoughts

How Calm

to reground
7.8
to soothe
63 3.4
to settle
540 2.8

Surface Forms

reground infinitive
regrounded past
regrounded past participle
regrounding present participle
regrounds third person singular

Morphology

reground = ground (transparent) = re + ground

Once the figurative verb 'ground' is known, 're-' clearly means doing it again.

Etymology

Reground is made from re- 'again' and ground in the sense of 'firm ground' or 'being grounded', so it means to bring someone back to a calm, steady place. That's why to reground yourself is to steady and calm your mind again.