Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense re-forms, present participle re-forming, past tense, past participle re-formed
verb
When an organization, group, or shape re-forms, or when someone re-forms it, it is created again after a period during which it did not exist or existed in a different form.
The official trades union council voted to disband itself and re-form as a confederation. [VERB]
The 40-year-old singer reformed his band. [VERB noun]
re-form in British English
(riːˈfɔːm)
verb
to form anew
Derived forms
re-formation (ˌre-forˈmation)
noun
re-form in American English
(riˈfɔrm)
verb transitive, verb intransitive
to form again
Examples of 're-form' in a sentence
re-form
Very few of the bands that have re-formed recently have bothered to pretend that they actually get on.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
System of a Down are another band who recently re-formed after a long hiatus.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
When the band re-formed in 2005 he got a shot at lead vocals.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
This is the second of the re-formed band 's idiosyncratic outings.