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🧶 To knit again 🤝 To repair relationships
to reknit

to reknit

7.2
Bring people back together after a break in their relationship
  • verb
  • /rɪˈnɪt/
translation icon : restablecer
  • What made you want to like reach out or like try to rekindle the relationship, if not the best relationship?

Examples

  • The organization aims to reknit the divided community through various outreach programs.

  • Therapists often help couples reknit their bond after a period of conflict.

  • "That's one way we reknit the community, lost as America sprawls outwards," he says.

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  • By the way, GAIL and Gary say they want to rekindle their relationship with Ryan, but only if Hannah is out of the picture.

  • I'm optimistic, but only so far as we turn away from the abstract nation-state monster, begin locally to reknit our communities, and bring about a natural economic order.

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  • After their disagreement, they worked hard to reknit their friendship and trust.

Synonyms

to patch up
vsto reknit
25 3.5

Make a relationship better after an argument or disagreement

restore deeper and more lasting unity between people

Antonyms

to alienate
123 6.7

To make someone feel alone and lose support from others

How Reunited

to reunify
7 5.9
to reconcile
38 5.1
to reknit
7.2
to reconnect
86 3.7
to reach out
338 2.7

Surface Forms

reknit infinitive
rekindling present participle
rekknits third person singular
rekind past
rekind past participle

Morphology

reknit = knit (semi-transparent) = re + knit

The figurative sense 'restore or bind together again' is understandable from 're-' + 'knit' but relies on a metaphorical extension of 'knit' to social bonds.

Etymology

The word reknit is also made of re- 'again' and knit 'to join', the same idea you see in close-knit, so to reknit a group or friendship is to bring people back together and fix their relationship.