Reunite vs Rejoin - What's the difference?
reunite | rejoin |
To unite again.
To join again; to unite after separation.
To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
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(archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
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(archaic): To answer to a reply.
(legal) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
(patent law , non-standard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).
As verbs the difference between reunite and rejoin
is that reunite is to unite again while rejoin is to join again; to unite after separation.reunite
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Verb
(reunit)- After ten years apart, the band will reunite .
- Two of the members tried several times, but failed to reunite the band.
Anagrams
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(en verb)page 60,
- Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot:
- The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:
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- 'Be careful what you do,' rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, 'lest someone see you digging, and scent us out.'