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to restack

to restack

1 3.1
Put things back into a neat pile after they fall or people move them
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈstæk/
translation icon : reapilar
  • After the storm, we had to restack the books that fell off the shelf.

Examples

  • Hey, aren't you guys going to help restack these?

    Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004)

  • And these gentlemen help to to restack some of the walls that had been had been broken because of the junipers.

  • The jumble attracted him, however, and he worked his way through the pile, restacking them neatly on the table, binding them up in the way Mrs. Farmstead would have done herself.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • You know, the employees that are held hostage during contract negotiations (if that's what the Gov. wants to call his tactics), receive pink slips, then pardoned, and finally restacked when out of nowhere the State has more money and hires more people.

    Blog text (2)

  • The children were excited to restack the blocks into neat towers after their game.

  • To make more space, he decided to restack the boxes in the garage.

Synonyms

to stack
vsto restack
138 1.6

To put things in a neat pile one on top of another

is the same action but done again after items have been moved or fallen
to stack up
vsto restack
8 3.2

Put things in a neat pile, one on top of another

is the same action but done again after items have been moved or fallen

How Thorough

to organize
  • US
662 1.6
to restack
1 3.1
to arrange
162 1.7

Surface Forms

restack infinitive
restacked past
restacked past participle
restacking present participle
restacks third person singular

Morphology

restack = stack (transparent) = re + stack

The meaning is a straightforward repetition of the action 'stack', so learners can readily infer 'stack again'.

Etymology

The word restack is made of re- meaning 'again' and stack meaning a 'pile'. So to restack is to put things back into a pile or neat rows after they have been moved or fallen.