Meaning & use

reestablish

verb·Academic

To set up or create something again after it was ended, lost, or disrupted.

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The two countries worked to reestablish diplomatic relations after decades of conflict.

It took months of therapy to reestablish trust between the estranged siblings.

A note on using this word

Reestablish is often written with a hyphen, re-establish, especially in British English; both forms are acceptable.

Words with a similar meaning

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