readherev.
/ˌriːədˈhɪə/, /ˌriːadˈhɪə/, U.S. /ˌriædˈhɪ(ə)r/, /ˌriədˈhɪ(ə)r/ intransitive. To adhere again.
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1710 C. Place True Eng. Revolutionist ii. 18 Not persisting in that Act of Defection..but re-adhering, before the fatal Difficulty occured, to what (if she did do it) she swerved from.
1727 J. Hutchinson Moses's Principia: Pt. II 93 By a Capacity of being alternately divided, and re-adhering by Motion once set forward, to continue that Motion, and successively place the Atoms on one side of the moving Globes.
1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 235 A tooth replaced in this manner not unfrequently re-adheres.
1924 Amer. Hist. Rev. 30 32 Re-adhere to instructions despite France.
1955 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 2 Oct. (Parade Mag.) 33/2 (advt.) Their pressure sensitive backs adhere to all surfaces without marking, re-adhere if you shift them.
1990 M. van Duyn Near Changes i. 9 All night long we lie like crescents of Velcro, turning together till we re-adhere.
2005 H. W. Hoogenkampf Soy Protein x. 145/1 Once the soy protein isolate has gone into gelation, individual particles are generated that won't re-adhere.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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v.1710- with time
- with tongue hanging out
- with tongue in cheek
- with tooth and nail
- with topsail
- with twelfth hand
- with twins
- with unright
- with unskill
- with up-sun
- with upsun
- with us
- with usury
- with vigour
- with virtue of
- with west in it
- with westen
- with whelp
- with will
- with win
- with wings displayed
- with witting
- with young
- with your earliest
- with your leave