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Reinter vs Reenter - What's the difference?

reinter | reenter |

In transitive terms the difference between reinter and reenter

is that reinter is to re-bury in a grave while reenter is to enter again; return into.

reinter

English

Verb

  • To re-bury in a grave.

    • Usage notes

    * This term is equally applicable whether the new interment is into the same grave as previously (as might happen after a body is exhumed for a medical autopsy) or into a new one (as might happen if a body was originally buried in a place later deemed inappropriate). * The spellings (reintering) (for (reinterring)) and (reintered) (for (reinterred)) exist as well, but are much less common.

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    reenter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1901 , title = , first = Booker T. , last = Washington , authorlink = Booker T. Washington , publisher = A. L. Burt , location = New York , chapter = 4 , page = 66 , lccn = 18006890 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=1bIJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA66&dq=re%C3%ABnter , url = http://www.bartleby.com/1004/4.html , passage = To my gratification he told me I could reënter the institution, and that he would trust me to pay the debt when I could. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1913 , title = , first = Henry , last = Gray , authorlink = Henry Gray , edition = new American/18th English , publisher = Lea & Febiger , location = Philadelphia; New York , url = http://www.bartleby.com/107/185.html , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=Ur9qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA762&dq=re%C3%ABnter , page = 762 , passage = It consists chiefly of intersegmental fibres which arise from cells in the gray substance, and, after a longer or shorter course, reënter the gray substance and ramify in it. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1922 , title = Fantasia of the Unconscious , first = D. H. , last = Lawrence , authorlink = D. H. Lawrence , publisher = Thomas Seltzer , location = New York , chapter = 1 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=QMw8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11&dq=re%C3%ABnter , page = 11 , passage = I am almost ashamed to say, that I believe the souls of the dead in some way reënter and pervade the souls of the living: so that life is always the life of living creatures, and death is always our affair. }}

    See also

    * re-enter

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