Reopen vs Renew - What's the difference?
reopen | renew |
To open (something) again.
* 1920 , Breckinridge Long, US Ambassador to Italy, a speech titled
To open again.
* 1933 , Franklin Roosevelt,
(lb) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.
*c.1596-98 , ,
*:In such a night / Medea gather’d the enchanted herbs / That did renew old AEson.
(lb) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of.
(lb) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), , Romans 12.2:
*:And fassion not youre selves lyke vnto this worlde: But be ye chaunged in youre shape by the renuynge of youre wittes that ye maye fele what thynge that good yt acceptable and perfaycte will of god is.
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*:to such as are in fear they strike a great impression, renew many times, and recal such chimeras and terrible fictions into their minds.
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*2010 September, Michael Allen, "St. Louis Preservation Fund", , ISSN 1090-5723, Vol.16, Is.9, p.74:
(lb) To begin again; to recommence.
*, IV.8:
*:Then gan he all this storie to renew , / And tell the course of his captivitie.
*1660 , (John Dryden), translating Virgil, (apparently from Eclogue 4''), a snippet of translation used to introduce Dryden's ''
*:The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, / Renews its finished course ; Saturnian times / Roll round again.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
(lb) To repeat.
*1674 , (John Milton), :
*:The birds their notes renew , and bleating herds / Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
To extend a period of loan, especially a library book that is due to be returned.
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As verbs the difference between reopen and renew
is that reopen is to open (something) again while renew is (lb) to make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.reopen
English
Verb
(en verb)- From the moment of the declaration by Germany, she would reopen her inhuman warfare by the indiscriminate use of submarines.
- The new law allows the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to issue additional currency on good assets and thus the banks which reopen will be able to meet every legitimate call.
Anagrams
*renew
English
Verb
(en verb)II.2.6.ii:
- Renewing neighborhoods dealing with vacant buildings badly need options other than demolition or dangerous vacant spaces.
Astræa Redux: A poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty Charles II