Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To germinate again.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To germinate again.

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  • verb intransitive To germinate again.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ germinate: compare Latin regerminare.

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Examples

  • Even amidst the rank productions of vice, they regerminate to a sort of imperfect vegetation, like some scattered hyacinths shooting up among the weeds of a ruined garden, that testify the former culture and amenity of the soil.

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

  • Even amidst the rank productions of vice, they regerminate to a sort of imperfect vegetation, like some scattered hyacinths shooting up among the weeds of a ruined garden, that testify the former culture and amenity of the soil.

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • Even amidst the rank productions of vice, they regerminate to a sort of imperfect vegetation, like some scattered hyacinths shooting up among the weeds of a ruined garden, that testify the former culture and amenity of the soil.

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 01 Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • What decent white in Aspen, the Roaring Fork Valley and the I-70 corridor would sit throughout such an unsanitized performance of the racist (racialist, white supremacist) mindset to regerminate the evil seeds that neocolonialism keeps promoting white is right and white might is right.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories 2009

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