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to reacquire

to reacquire

5 5.5
To get something back after you lose or give it up
  • verb
  • /ˌriːəˈkwaɪər/
translation icon : recomprar
  • After years of searching, she was finally able to reacquire the antique necklace her grandmother had given her.

It's got a gas pedal on there for your thumb to keep you keep the speed going, help you with recoil management a little bit, reacquire your sights and all metal.

Examples

  • In 1513, the family reacquired the Giardino di S. Marco and restored it to its old function.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Yancy had reacquired a portion of his old certainty, but not enough to offer any opinions.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Life needs to reacquire a little faith, anyway.

    Blog text (11)

  • Try to reacquire and make contact in 60 minutes.

    Inferno (2016)

  • We can reacquire the subject and she'll be unaware of our surveillance.

    Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

  • Navajo people today and in the future can reacquire those abilities and skills.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Helping them to reacquire merchandise when the debtor can no longer afford the payments.

    Father Figures (2017)

  • Anything you've left at her place should be reacquired before you break up with her.

    Blog text (31)

  • They were particularly interested in this apparatus that the Night Parade wanted so desperately to reacquire.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • But Paramount reacquired the rights to the film three years after Hughes's death, and you can find it on Blu-ray today.

Synonyms

to get back
vsto reacquire
∞ 1.6

Have again something you had before it was lost or taken

emphasizes that the return can also occur through purchase
to recover
vsto reacquire
748 2.5

Get back to a normal state after a loss, for example health or money

is narrower here, focusing on regaining objects often by obtaining them again
to regain
vsto reacquire
275 3.3

To get something back after losing it

adds the idea that buying is one common way to do this
to retrieve
vsto reacquire
226 3.7

To go and get something and bring it back, for example a dog bringing a ball

can be done by fetching but also by buying or claiming
to take back
vsto reacquire
99 3.0

Get back something you had given, lent, or lost

is similar but more often implies obtaining or buying it again
to reclaim
vsto reacquire
77 4.1

To get back something you lost or gave away

focuses more on getting possession by action, not buying
to win back
vsto reacquire
33 3.4

Get back someone or something you lost

is more neutral and often includes straightforward retrieval or purchase
to retake
vsto reacquire
31 4.6

To take back control of a place after it was lost

is less forceful and can involve peaceful purchase or request
to buy back
vsto reacquire
22 3.4

To pay money to get something you once sold, lost, or gave away

can mean regaining by purchase or by other methods
to repurchase
vsto reacquire
3 5.3

To buy back something you sold before

is broader and includes nonpurchase ways to get something back
to rebuy
vsto reacquire
4.3

To buy something again that you no longer have

also covers regaining without purchasing, not only buying again

Antonyms

to lose
∞ 1.0

Not be able to find something you once had

to surrender
722 4.4

To stop fighting and give control or things to someone else, often when forced

How Restored

to buy back
22 3.4
to reacquire
5 5.5
to retrieve
226 3.7
to find
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

reacquire infinitive
reacquired past
reacquired past participle
reacquiring present participle
reacquires third person singular

Morphology

reacquire = acquire (transparent) = re + acquire

The prefix 're-' straightforwardly adds the meaning 'again' to the common verb 'acquire'.

Etymology

Reacquire is made of re- meaning 'again' and acquire meaning 'to get', like the simple word 'get'. So to reacquire something is to 'get' it 'again', to get back what you once had.