Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To make bright or clear again; illuminate again.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To rekindle; light again.

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

  • transitive verb To rekindle; to light again.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To rekindle; to light.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[re– + (il)lume.]

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  • To light or light up again: rekindle. (From WWFTD)

    June 7, 2008

  • Then shall be

    No lamp relumed in heaven, no voices crying,

    Or changing lights, or dreams and forms that hover!

    (And, heart, for all your sighing,

    That gladness and those tears are over, over. . . .)

    - Rupert Brooke

    March 9, 2009

  • The light of decorum’s entombed,

    God knows when we’ll see it exhumed.

    The shadows that cloak us

    In all that’s atrocious

    Will stay till that lamp is relumed.

    October 10, 2018

  • Missed chance to work hocus-pocus into that.

    October 10, 2018