rekindle

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ kindle.

Pronunciation

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Verb

rekindle (third-person singular simple present rekindles, present participle rekindling, simple past and past participle rekindled)

1. (transitive) To kindle again.
2. (intransitive) To be kindled or ignited again.
3. (transitive, figurative) To revive.

   After being abroad for a decade, when he came back he rekindled his obsession with cricket.

   • 2015 October 1, Mark Tennis, “State’s Greatest Closed High Schools”, in Cal-Hi Sports‎^[1]:

     It was rekindled this summer when going through the all-time football scores for St. Mary’s of Stockton and Oakdale (two of the top programs in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section) and I discovered that both of them can still count their worst losses as being to Stockton High at 78-0 and 90-0, respectively.

Translations

To kindle once again

• Bulgarian: пламвам отново (plamvam otnovo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重拾重新点燃

• Czech: znovu rozdmýchat pf, znovu roznítit pf
• Finnish: sytyttää uudestaan, saada uudelleen syttymään
• French: rallumer (fr)
• Galician: atizar (gl)
• German: wiederentfachen
• Greek: αναζωπυρώνω (el) (anazopyróno)
• Latin: reconflō
• Macedonian: ожи́вее (ožívee), по́вторно за́пали (póvtorno zápali)
• Manx: aafoad
• Maori: tungutungu
• Portuguese: reacender (pt)

To revive

• Bulgarian: възраждам (bg) (vǎzraždam)
• Czech: znovu oživit pf
• French: raviver (fr)
• German: wiederentfachen
• Greek: αναζωπυρώνω (el) (anazopyróno)
• Macedonian: пре́роди (prérodi), во́зроди (vózrodi)
• Norman: aaghreesee

Noun

rekindle (plural rekindles)

1. Synonym of reflash

Anagrams

• Elderkin, delinker, linkered, nerdlike, relinked