Definitions

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  • transitive verb To erect again.

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  • verb transitive To erect again.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ erect

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Examples

  • David Philipson of Cambridge University, who has been excavating at Axum for the past five years, has found the footings for the obelisk, making it possible to reerect the monument in its original location.

    Axum Obelisk To Go Home

  • Cambodian-Laotian and Laotian-Vietnamese boundary commissions reerect missing markers completing most of their demarcations

    The 2005 CIA World Factbook

  • Laotian-Vietnamese boundary commissions reerect missing markers completing most of their demarcations

    The 2005 CIA World Factbook

  • St. Dunstan's first care was to reerect the church of St. Peter, rebuild the cloister, and re-establish the monastic enclosure.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy

  • Julius, his fervour having abated, wished that Michael Angelo should supply them; but he considering the business it would be to reerect the scaffolding, replied that there was nothing important wanting.

    Michael Angelo Buonarroti

  • A week after the Rhodians declined Ptolemy III’s offer to reerect the Colossus, thehead of the mammoth fallen statue—all sixteen feet of it—went missing.

    Seven Deadly Wonders

  • A week after the Rhodians declined Ptolemy III’s offer to reerect the Colossus, thehead of the mammoth fallen statue—all sixteen feet of it—went missing.

    Seven Deadly Wonders

  • A week after the Rhodians declined Ptolemy III’s offer to reerect the Colossus, thehead of the mammoth fallen statue—all sixteen feet of it—went missing.

    Seven Deadly Wonders

  • Zionista · June 16th, 2004 at 12:42 pm your green party friends are right only in the sense that Israel is built on other people’s land. sadly its hard to reerect 471 villages.

    Bush Again Delays Move Of US Embassy to Jerusalem | Jewschool

  • XIII was to reerect the Scottish hierarchy by his Bull "Ex Supreme

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

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