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a prefix, occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, used with the meaning “again” or “again and again” to indicate repetition, or with the meaning “back” or “backward” to indicate withdrawal or backward motion: regenerate; refurbish; retype; retrace; revert.

Also, red-.

[Origin: ME < L re-, red-

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re-
pref.

Again; anew: rebuild.
Backward; back: react.
Used as an intensive: refine.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin; see re- in Indo-European roots.]

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re-

prefix meaning "back to the original place, again," also with a sense of "undoing," c.1200, from O.Fr. and directly from L. re- "again, back." Often merely intensive.

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Rap`proche`ment"\, n. [F., fr. rapprocher to cause to approach again. See Re-; Approach.] Act or fact of coming or being drawn near or together; establishment or state of cordial relations.

He had witnessed the gradual rapprochement between the papacy and Austria. --Wilfrid Ward.

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