Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stem again; force back against the current.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To force back against the current.
- transitive verb To stem, or move against.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To force back against the current.
- verb To stem, or move against.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
re- + stem
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Examples
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Neste mundo poluído, super-urbanizado, sobre-povoado, explorado até ao limite dos seus recursos e no limiar de catástrofes ambientais à escala planetária, não creio que nos restem grandes escolhas.
Leituras Artur 2006
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Habent etiam quocunque vadunt quendam restem centum vel ducentorum nucleorum, sicut nos portamus pater noster:
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Habent etiam quocunque vadunt quendam restem centum vel ducentorum nucleorum, sicut nos portamus pater noster:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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