Meaning & use
reestablish
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.
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