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Etymology

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From re- +‎ eject.

Verb

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reeject (third-person singular simple present reejects, present participle reejecting, simple past and past participle reejected)

  1. To eject again.
    • 1964, Reactor Materials - Volumes 7-9, page 191:
      An average fission product originating in the collected material was found to reeject about 10,000 atoms, whereas one originating in the emitter reejected only about 1000 atoms.
    • 1989, R. A. Cawson, Pathology, the mechanisms of disease, page 228:
      Moreover, to maintain a normal output, the ventricles have to continually reeject the regurgitated blood and are in a situation not unlike a person desperately trying to bale water out of a rapidly leaking boat.
    • 2006, Wolfgang Kundt, Astrophysics: A New Approach, →ISBN, page 112:
      ...whereas nuclear power is used to reeject matter at higher than SN velocities through the BLR, NLR, and galactic halo, enriching the IGM with metals.