re-examine

• reexamine
• reëxamine

From re- +‎ examine.

• enPR: rē′ĭg-zăm′ĭn^[1]
• (conservative Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌɹiː.ɪɡˈzæm.ɪn/

  (contemporary Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɹiː.ɪɡˈzam.ɪn/

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɹi.ɪɡˈzæm.ɪn/

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌɹiː.əɡˈzɛm.ən/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌɹi.ɪɡˈzam.ɪn/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌɾiː.ɪɡˈzam.ɪn/
• Rhymes: -æmɪn
• Hyphenation: re-ex‧am‧ine^[1]

re-examine (third-person singular simple present re-examines, present participle re-examining, simple past and past participle re-examined)

2. (transitive) To examine again.^[1]

   Hypernym: examine

   • 1959 February, “Re-Appraisal of Modernisation Plans”, in Railway Magazine, page 73:

     At the request of the Minister of Transport, the Commission is reviewing the achievements under the plan up to the end of 1958 and the benefits obtained from it, and is re-examining the course of the plan, with particular reference to the next five years "related to the future size of railway system needed in view of current economic developments and future expected requirements."

   • 2008 December 7, David Samuels, “Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs”, in The New Yorker:

     Making long cross-country drives, Coster-Mullen said, had given him plenty of time to reëxamine the three-dimensional diagram of the bomb that he keeps in his head, like a Buddhist monk contemplating the Karmic wheel.

   • 2012 December 2, Mohhamad Reza Kiani, Relativity Reexamined, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 34:

     Let us now reexamine our quantum and relativity conditions (3.3) and (3.4).

   • 2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, “Guest Columnist”, in Rail, page 52:

     These questions are re-examined by senior management at key stages throughout the project (often known as gateways) at which a decision might be made be modify or even abort a project rather than waste any more money.

4. (transitive, chiefly British) To question a witness in redirect examination.^[1]

• “re-examine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.