Words with the prefix re

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• Meanings of the prefix re
• Examples of words with the prefix re

The prefixre-, of Latin origin, can mean repetition, intensification, negation or regression. For example: reto name, refat, repour.

• See also: Prefixes (with their meaning)

Meanings of the prefix re

• Repetition. For example: reproduce, reto name, refall, rebuild.
• Intensification. For example: regood, rebeautiful, refat.
• Denial or resistance. For example: retry out, rechazar, repour.
• Backward movement. For example: rechop, recamera.

Examples of words with the prefix re

1. Regroup: Rejoin something that was scattered.
2. Reset: Adjust something again.
3. Rearrange: Come back to drawing a conclusion again.
4. Lower: Decrease the price.
5. Soften: Soften something even more or that it returns to its soft condition.
6. Very beautiful: More than pretty.
7. Regrowth: A plant sprout comes out again.
8. Rummage: Look for something carefully and meticulously.
9. Relapse: Fall again.
10. Recalculate: Recalculate something.
11. Replace: Change one thing that no longer works for another.
12. Recharge: Load something again.
13. To refuse: Show yourself against or opposed to something.
14. Grind: Sound that is produced by touching two things generally made of metal.
15. Squeeze: Vacuum that arises from the contraction of the castings.
16. Reclassify: Re-sort.
17. Recommend: Advise a person on what he can or should do or carry out.
18. Recommence: Start over.
19. Reprimand: Punishing a person for an action or saying that they have done wrong.
20. Collect: Gather information.
21. Trim: Cut a thing that has something that protrudes or is left over.
22. Recover: Go back.
23. Redefine: Redefine.
24. Rediscovery: Rediscover.
25. Redistribute: Deal one thing again.
26. Sweetness: Which is very sweet.
27. Re-elect: Choose the same as before.
28. Replace: Change something for something else.
29. Re-hook: Re-hook.
30. Resend: Resend something to someone else.
31. To rewrite: Write something again.
32. Rerun: Brand new something.
33. Restructure: Change the way in which something has been thought or structured.
34. Re-explain: Re-explain the same thing.
35. To float: Put a boat back on the water to be used as such.
36. Go backwards or go back something.
37. Beef up: Make something stronger.
38. Merge: Melt a metal again.
39. To nag: To quarrel with someone with a disapproving tone and gestures for some issue.
40. Joy: Immense joy or happiness.
41. Chubby: Boy or girl who is overweight or small and thick.
42. Rehabilitate: Re-enable or return to condition.
43. Redo: Do again.
44. Remade: That has been done for the second time.
45. Rehench: Fill with something soft, such as feathers or wool, a cushion or pillow.
46. Rewet: Re-moisten.
47. Reprint: Reprint.
48. Relapse: Do the same action again or have the same wrong attitude towards something or someone.
49. To reiterate: Re-say or do something that has already been said or done.
50. Rejuvenate: Give or have a more youthful appearance physically as well as psychically or spiritually in relation to the chronological age that the person has.
51. Rejuvenate: Looking younger every day.
52. Reread: Reread.
53. Filling: Which is full of something in particular.
54. Remalvado: Extremely bad person or who acts with evil.
55. Roll up: Pick up the sleeves or another part of a garment.
56. Top off: End with a thing or situation.
57. To deny: Say insults or curse.
58. Rename: Give another name to a thing or person.
59. Distribute: Give each person one thing that corresponds to him.
60. Repatriate: Return something to its country of origin or natural origin.
61. Rethink: Rethinking something but doing it with an attitude of reflection and care.
62. Ring: Produce a sound repeatedly as a sign of joy or celebration.
63. Rebuild: Rebuild something.
64. Rattle: Repeat the sound of an instrument or something to make noise several times and with great energy.
65. Rethink: Raise something, an issue or a problem again.
66. Restock: Populate a site again.
67. Fail: Don't approve.
68. play: Listen to something on an electronic device again.
69. Disgust: Cause disgust for something or someone.
70. Resalted: Which is very salty.
71. Highlight: Stand out from the crowd.
72. Slide: Slide a liquid thing on a flat surface.
73. Resent: To feel a pain from something distant again.
74. Restore: Establish something that was lost or forgotten.
75. Staunch: Re tinning.
76. Scrub: Quickly and repeatedly rub a thing to clean it.
77. Resurface: Will arise again.
78. Detail: Action of plants when they shed stems again after pruning.
79. Delay: Reassess a certain value, a piece of furniture or a property for sale.
80. Remove: Leaving a place or site.
81. To climb: Lean or throw back the upper body.
82. Reverse: Refute something a person says or does.
83. Gather: Join something that was scattered.
84. To reuse: Use something again.
85. Re-use: Go back to using something.
86. Revalue: Put a certain commercial or monetary value back on a certain thing.
87. To green: Turn green again (plants and gardens) after winter.
88. To revive: Return to life after death.
89. Ooze: It is said of the action of a liquid body when it comes out of a container by perspiration or through slits.
90. Rethink: Rethink.

(!) Exceptions

Not all words that begin with the syllable re- correspond to this prefix. These are some exceptions:

• Real: Which is something true.
• To water: Sprinkle water on the plants so that they can be watered.
• Laugh: Manifest joy and happiness.
• Grid: Piece of iron.
• Pray: Bow down and say a prayer addressed to God.
• To require: Need something from someone.
• Re-paint: Insulting a person verbally.
• Magazine: Periodical publication where articles of general information are presented.

• See also: Prefixes and suffixes