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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reroot.

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Examples

  • But Williams rerooted himself in the place by mastering Welsh, and in 1999 he was elected archbishop of Wales.

    The Velvet Reformation 2009

  • But Williams rerooted himself in the place by mastering Welsh, and in 1999 he was elected archbishop of Wales.

    The Velvet Reformation 2009

  • More than singing, her Syrian Muslim dad rerooted in Brazil and fell in love with the sounds of Antonio Carlos Jobim -- he named all three of his daughters after the legend's songs.

    Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Two Malians and a Brazilian 2010

  • Then the crop plant would wither and die in the sun, while the bindweed drew on its own moist flesh, rerooted, and grew.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  •  Think, he wanted to say, of the tulips that jut from the iron-poor soil at the side of the house, the rhododendron that rerooted itself after being torn from the ground by a hostile wind, last autumn's apple trees breaking out in perfect red fruits despite being eaten away by fungus.

    Eclipse 2008

  •   Think, he wanted to say, of the tulips that jut from the iron-poor soil at the side of the house, the rhododendron that rerooted itself after being torn from the ground by a hostile wind, last autumn's apple trees breaking out in perfect red fruits despite being eaten away by fungus.

    Eclipse Jane Delury 2008

  • In other words, segregation was rerooted after the muti-culti bone had been thrown.

    Sense of Events 2010

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