Adjacent Words
Re-demptionRe-direct examination
re-disburse
re-dress
Re-echo
Re-echoed
Re-echoing
Re-edification
Re-edified
Re-edify
Re-edifying
re-edit
re-education
Re-elect
Re-elected
Re-electing
Re-election
Re-eligibility
Re-eligible
Re-embark
Re-embarkation
Re-embattle
Re-embattled
Re-embattling
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Oxford Reference Dictionary
v.tr. educate again, esp. to change a person's views or beliefs. Derivatives: re-education n.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
(re-educates, re-educating, re-educated) Note: in AM, also use 'reeducate' If an organization such as a government tries to re-educate a group of people, they try to make them adopt new attitudes, beliefs, or types of behaviour. We are having to re-educate the public very quickly about something they have always taken for granted. VERB: V n • re-education ...a programme of punishment and re-education of political dissidents.
