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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REJOIN', v.t. [re and join.]
1. To join again; to unite after separation.
2. To meet one again.
REJOIN', v.i.
1. To answer to a reply.
2. In law pleadings, to answer, as the defendant to the plantif's replication.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: join again
2: answer back [syn: retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin]

Merriam Webster's

verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French rejoindre, from re- + joindre to join — more at join Date: 15th century intransitive verb to answer the replication of the plaintiff transitive verb 1. to join again 2. to say often sharply or critically in response especially as a reply to a reply

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v. 1 tr. & intr. join together again; reunite. 2 tr. join (a companion etc.) again. 2. v. 1 tr. say in answer, retort. 2 intr. Law reply to a charge or pleading in a lawsuit. Etymology: ME f. OF rejoindre rejoign- (as RE-, JOIN)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rejoin Re*join" (r?-join"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rejoined (-joind"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rejoining.] [F. rejoindre; pref. re- re- + joindre to join. See Join, and cf. Rejoinder.] 1. To join again; to unite after separation. 2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again. Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot. --Pope. 3. To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rejoin Re*join", v. i. 1. To answer to a reply. 2. (Law) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rejoins, rejoining, rejoined) 1. If you rejoin a group, club, or organization, you become a member of it again after not being a member for a period of time. The Prime Minister of Fiji has said Fiji is in no hurry to rejoin the Commonwealth... VERB: V n 2. If you rejoin someone, you go back to them after a short time away from them. Mimi and her family went off to Tunisia to rejoin her father. VERB: V n 3. If you rejoin a route, you go back to it after travelling along a different route for a time. At Dorset Wharf go left to rejoin the river... VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Answer (to a reply).

Moby Thesaurus

acknowledge, answer, answer back, come back, come back at, come in, confute, countercharge, counterclaim, echo, flash back, give acknowledgment, give answer, make a rebuttal, react, rebut, reecho, refute, reply, respond, retort, return, return answer, return for answer, reverberate, riposte, say, say in reply, shoot back, surrebut, surrejoin, talk back