Refinds vs Reminds - What's the difference?
refinds | reminds |
(refind)
To find something again.
*, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.300:
* {{quote-news, 2008, November 22, Brian A. Howey, The Obama 'Landslide' Impact, Howey Politics Indiana
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(remind)
To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
* 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 3:
* 1915 , , Victory: An Island Tale , "Author's Note":
As verbs the difference between refinds and reminds
is that refinds is third-person singular of refind while reminds is third-person singular of remind.refinds
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* *refind
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- Cardan, in his fifth book of Wisdom, gives an instance in a smith of Milan, a fellow-citizen of his, one Galeus de Rubeis, that being commended for refinding of an instrument of Archimedes, for joy ran mad.
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* rediscoverAnagrams
* *reminds
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* *remind
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(en verb)- I am aware, reader, and you need not remind me, that it is a dreadful thing for a parson to be warlike.
- His eyes were green and every cat I see to this day reminds me of the exact contour of his face.