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to reinhabit

to reinhabit

7.6
To live in a place again after leaving it
  • verb
  • /ˌriːɪnˈhæbɪt/
translation icon : reocupar
  • All of this has enormous, ultimately positive implications for land tenure because the best, most lasting restoration begins and persists where people see themselves as reinhabiting specific places.

Examples

  • I will learn that everyone reacts differently to a rape, but that there are some constants: eagerness to take back control of a life and reinhabit an identity; heartening, often starting, glimpses of human courage and resilience.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • We just need to "reinhabit" it, take the "Where You At" bio-regional quiz, and finally know our place.

    Blog text (5)

  • I look at just in my database, all of the proposals to redevelop, Reinhabit these properties.

  • These and other poets remain distant from the historical, mythical, and quasi-personal pasts that they can never quite reinhabit.

    Academic text (2017)

  • By directing attention to the distant future, Macy invites us to "reinhabit" a deep, mythological sense of time; such a perspective is a welcome antidote to the impoverished, constricted sense of time that prevails in industrial societies.

    Academic text (1994)

  • After the forest fire, many animals began to reinhabit their former territories.

  • Communities can reinhabit abandoned areas to restore their neighborhoods and preserve history.

  • The artist wishes to reinhabit the old warehouse and transform it into a gallery for local talent.

Synonyms

to occupy
vsto reinhabit
79 3.0

To live in a place or have a home there

focuses on returning to live in a place after previously leaving
to repopulate
vsto reinhabit
11 4.1

To fill a place again with people, animals, or plants after they disappeared

describes return to live in a place again, not filling it anew with many inhabitants
to reoccupy
vsto reinhabit
3 5.6

To return to a place or job and be there again

is about living in a place again specifically as one's home
to remigrate
vsto reinhabit
7.8

To move again to the same or a new place after you have already moved once

focuses on living in a place again rather than on moving locations

Antonyms

to abandon
773 3.1

Leave someone or something behind permanently and without care

How Permanently

to settle
463 2.5
to resettle
15 4.3
to reinhabit
7.6
to reoccupy
3 5.6
to visit
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

reinhabit infinitive
reinhabited past
reinhabited past participle
reinhabiting present participle
reinhabits third person singular

Morphology

reinhabit = inhabit (transparent) = re + inhabit

This is a standard and readily understandable use of the prefix 're-' meaning 'again' attached to the verb 'inhabit'.

Etymology

The word reinhabit is made from re- meaning 'again' and inhabit meaning 'to live in'. So, to reinhabit a place is to live in it once more, after leaving or after it was empty.