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

  • intransitive verb To combine (things) again.
  • intransitive verb To combine again.
  • intransitive verb Genetics To undergo or cause recombination; form new combinations.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To combine again.

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

  • transitive verb To combine again.

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

  • verb to combine again, especially to reassemble the parts of something previously taken apart in a different manner
  • verb genetics to undergo recombination

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb to combine or put together again
  • verb undergo genetic recombination
  • verb cause genetic recombination

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