to reinscribe
- verb
- /ˌriːɪnˈskraɪb/
:
reinscribir
- "While working in the fields, he would hide from his employer - "I used to drop down behind a hedge bush or dyke" - and write his poems on his hat until he could reinscribe them later.
Examples
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After losing the original manuscript, the author had to reinscribe the entire story from memory.
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In order to acquire full meaning, to survive rather than gradually fade away, these traces have to be reinscribed on the minds of readers in new books or articles.
Academic text (1995) -
To explore how these themes and the many issues that shade their discussion are reinscribed by the debate, I begin by sketching the debate's origins and then proceed to an examination of its major perspectives.
Academic text (1998) -
The museum decided to reinscribe the ancient tablet to make the text clear for future generations.
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When the engraving wore off, the jeweler offered to reinscribe the initials on the bracelet.
Synonyms
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2.8
To make a new version of a text to improve or change it
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5.3
Put words on something like a book or monument so they last
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6.9
Cut new shapes or details into something that was already cut
Put new letters on signs or vehicles to show new writing
To write something again to correct or update it
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Etymology
Reinscribe comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and inscribe which means 'to write' or 'to mark'. So reinscribe literally means 'write again', which is why we use it for carving or making faded words readable again.