Definitions

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

  • transitive verb To relight (a fire).
  • transitive verb To revive or renew.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To kindle again; set on fire anew.
  • To inflame again; rouse anew.
  • To take fire or be animated anew.

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

  • verb To kindle again.

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

  • verb To kindle once again.
  • verb To revive.

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

  • verb kindle anew, as of a fire
  • verb arouse again

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Examples

  • Their goal was to "rekindle" the vision shared by Gorbachev and Reagan at Reykjavik.

    Craig K. Comstock: Causing What It's Meant to Prevent 2010

  • Wow -- talk about trying to "rekindle" the magic of the Straight Talk Express, as The Washington Post put it today.

    McCain Relaunching The "Straight Talk Express"! 2009

  • I think you'll find with each passing year you'll find fewer and fewer people who are willing to kind of rekindle those, re-fight those fights.

    CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2009 2009

  • CONAN: Was there a moment … Mr. ISLAM: Only sometimes, I - yeah, I was going to say sometimes I go back to some of my old melodies, and they kind of rekindle, you know, interesting little ideas.

    Yusuf Islam: the Former Cat Stevens on His New CD 2006

  • And indeed, let's not discount bin Laden's ability to kind of rekindle the war a terrorism, or other of the terrorists also.

    CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2002 2002

  • Yet no amount of personal enthusiasm could "rekindle" the German war effort while it was burdened with that rigid departmentalisation, bounded by the frontiers of privilege and personal jealousy which had been multiplying since 1938.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • Wherefore -- Greek, "For which cause," namely, because thou hast inherited, didst once possess, and I trust ( "am persuaded") still dost possess, such unfeigned faith [Alford]. stir up -- literally, "rekindle," "revive the spark of"; the opposite of

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Marc, rather unexpectedly, seemed to "rekindle" things with Troy and take on more responsibility at

    PopWatch Tanner Stransky 2010

  • Marc, rather unexpectedly, seemed to "rekindle" things with Troy and take on more responsibility at

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  • Holger Schmieding, chief European economist at BofA Merrill in London, says the ECB is "underestimating the strength of the upturn" and further gains in asset prices could "rekindle" the central bank's concerns about overheating in the economy.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2010

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