reseat

[ ree-seet ]
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verb (used with object)
  1. to provide with a new seat or new seats.

  2. to seat again.

Origin of reseat

1
First recorded in 1630–40; re- + seat

Words Nearby reseat

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How to use reseat in a sentence

  • He looked up at the light shining down through the drawn curtain, and hurriedly shut it out, to reseat himself and think.

    The Man with a Shadow | George Manville Fenn

British Dictionary definitions for reseat

reseat

/ (riːˈsiːt) /


verb(tr)
  1. to show (a person) to a new seat

  2. to put a new seat on (a chair, etc)

  1. to provide new seats for (a hall, theatre, etc)

  2. to re-form the seating of (a valve)

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