<B>rejoice, </B>verb, <B>-joiced,</B> <B>-joicing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to be glad; be filled with joy. <BR> <I>Ex. Mother rejoiced at our success.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make glad; fill with joy. <BR> <I>Ex. Good news rejoices the heart.</I> (SYN) cheer, delight. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to be joyful at. <BR> <I>Ex. Ne'er mother Rejoiced deliverance more (Shakespeare).</I> noun <B>rejoicer.</B> </DL>
<B>rejoicing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the feeling or expression of joy. <BR> <I>Ex. There were great festivities--illuminations, state concerts, immense crowds, and general rejoicings (Lytton Strachey).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an occasion for joy. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) a cause of joy. <BR> <I>Ex. Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart (Jeremiah 15:16).</I> adv. <B>rejoicingly.</B> </DL>
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<B>rejoin</B> (1), transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to join again; unite again. <BR> <I>Ex. The members of our family will be rejoined at Thanksgiving.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to join the company of again. <BR> <I>Ex. The sailor will rejoin his comrades.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to come together again; be reunited. </DL>
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<B>rejoin</B> (2), transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to answer; reply. <BR> <I>Ex. "Come with me!" "Not on your life," he rejoined.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make answer to a reply or remark. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Law.) to answer the plaintiff's reply to the defendant's plea. </DL>
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<B>rejoinder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an answer to a reply; response. <BR> <I>Ex. a debater's rejoinder.</I> (SYN) retort. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Law.) a defendant's answer to the plaintiff's reply to the defendant's plea. </DL>
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<B>rejudge, </B>transitive verb, <B>-judged,</B> <B>-judging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to judge over again or in a new way. </DL>
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<B>rejuggle, </B>transitive verb, <B>-gled,</B> <B>-gling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to juggle again. </DL>
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<B>rejustification, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of rejustifying. </DL>
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<B>rejustify, </B>transitive verb, <B>-fied,</B> <B>-fying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to justify again. </DL>
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<B>rejuvenate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-nated,</B> <B>-nating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make young or vigorous again; give youthful qualities to. <BR> <I>Ex. The long rest and new clothes have rejuvenated her.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Geology.) <DD><B> a. </B>to cause (a stream) to flow faster and erode land quicker by increasing the declivity of the land it flows over. <DD><B> b. </B>to begin a new cycle of erosion in (a region) by upheaval of the land surrounding a stream. adv. <B>rejuvenatingly.</B> </DL>
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<B>rejuvenation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of rejuvenating; restoration to youth, youthful appearance or vigor. <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of being rejuvenated. </DL>
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<B>rejuvenator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that rejuvenates. </DL>
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<B>rejuvenesce, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-nesced,</B> <B>-nescing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make or become young again. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Biology.) to undergo or produce rejuvenescence. </DL>
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<B>rejuvenescence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the renewal of youth or youthful vigor. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Biology.) <DD><B> a. </B>the process by which the contents of a cell break the cell wall and form a new cell with a new wall. <DD><B> b. </B>the renewal of vitality by the exchange of material between two distinct cells, as during conjugation. </DL>
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<B>rejuvenescent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>becoming young again. <DD><B> 2. </B>making young again. </DL>
<B>rekindle, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-dled,</B> <B>-dling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to set on fire again; kindle anew. noun <B>rekindler.</B> </DL>
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<B>rekindlement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of rekindling. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being rekindled. </DL>
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<B>reknit, </B>transitive verb, <B>-knitted</B> or <B>-knit,</B> <B>-knitting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to knit (up) again; refasten. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) The renewal of the parental reknits the fraternal tie (W. R. Williams).</I> </DL>
<B>relabel, </B>transitive verb, <B>-beled,</B> <B>-beling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to label again. </DL>
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<B>re-laid, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense and past participle of <B>re-lay.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The pavement on our street has just been re-laid.</I> </DL>
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<B>relapse, </B>verb, <B>-lapsed,</B> <B>-lapsing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to fall or slip back into a former state or way of acting. <BR> <I>Ex. After one cry of surprise she relapsed into silence.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to fall back into wrongdoing; backslide. <DD><B> 3. </B>to have a return of the symptoms of an illness following convalescence. <BR> <I>Ex. The next day the doctors were back; Tom had relapsed (Mark Twain).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> the state or process of falling or slipping back into a former state, or way of acting. <BR> <I>Ex. He seemed to be getting over his illness but had a relapse.</I> noun <B>relapser.</B> </DL>
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<B>relapsing fever,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several infectious diseases characterized by recurrent episodes of chills, fever, and neuromuscular pain, and caused by spirochetes transmitted by lice or ticks. </DL>
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<B>relatable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that may be related with something else. <BR> <I>Ex. Class sizes are not directly relatable to the quality and effectiveness of learning (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>that may be told or narrated. <BR> <I>Ex. The story is too long to be relatable at one sitting.</I> </DL>
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<B>relate, </B>verb, <B>-lated,</B> <B>-lating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to give an account of; tell. <BR> <I>Ex. The traveler related his adventures.</I> (SYN) recount, recite, narrate. <DD><B> 2. </B>to connect in thought or meaning. <BR> <I>Ex. "Better" and "best" are related to "good."</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to be connected in any way. <BR> <I>Ex. We are interested in what relates to ourselves. The critic eye ... examines bit by bit: How parts relate to parts, or they to whole (Alexander Pope).</I> (SYN) pertain. <DD><B> 2. </B>to have a friendly or close social relationship with another or others; be responsive or sympathetic. <BR> <I>Ex. Some teen-agers relate better to their friends than to their family. He flagellates himself equally for ... relating badly to his children and for not relating at all to the children of Pakistan (Melvin Maddocks).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) to give an account of something. noun <B>relater.</B> </DL>
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<B>related, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>connected in any way. <BR> <I>Ex. Montesquieu had shown how human institutions were related to racial habit and climate (Edmund Wilson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>belonging to the same family; connected by a common origin. <BR> <I>Ex. Cousins are related. French and Spanish are related languages.</I> (SYN) allied, cognate, akin. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Music.) relative. <DD><B> 4. </B>narrated. noun <B>relatedness.</B> </DL>
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<B>relation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a connection in thought or meaning. <BR> <I>Ex. Your answer has no relation to the question.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>connection or dealings between persons, groups, or countries. <BR> <I>Ex. international relations. The relation of mother and child is the closest in the world. The relation between master and servant has changed greatly during the last century. Our firm has business relations with his firm.</I> (SYN) alliance, relationship, affiliation. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who belongs to the same family as another, such as a father, brother, aunt, or relative. <DD><B> 4. </B>reference; regard. <DD><B> 5a. </B>the act of telling; account. <BR> <I>Ex. We were interested by the hunter's relation of his adventures.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a narrative. <BR> <I>Ex. We must be content in our ignorance with a brief and summary relation (Lytton Strachey).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Mathematics.) a set of ordered pairs. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Law.) <DD><B> a. </B>a reference to an earlier date. <DD><B> b. </B>the charge of the person who brings a lawsuit. <BR><I>expr. <B>in</B> (or <B>with</B>) <B>relation to,</B> </I>in reference to; in regard to; about; concerning. <BR> <I>Ex. We must plan in relation to the future.</I> </DL>
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<B>relational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with relations. <DD><B> 2. </B>that relates. <DD><B> 3. </B>showing relation between elements in grammar. adv. <B>relationally.</B> </DL>
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<B>relationship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a connection. <BR> <I>Ex. What is the relationship of clouds to rain?</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of belonging to the same family. <DD><B> 3. </B>the state or condition that exists between people or groups that deal with one another. <BR> <I>Ex. a business relationship, a social relationship.</I> </DL>
