reunderstand

reunderstand

English

Etymology

re- +‎ understand

Verb

reunderstand (third-person singular simple present reunderstands, present participle reunderstanding, simple past and past participle reunderstood)

1. To reach a new or renewed understanding.
   • 1996, G. A. Pritchard, Willow Creek Seeker Services: Evaluating a New Way of Doing Church, Baker Books (1996), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     A large part of the weekend service is designed to help people reunderstand who God is.

   • 2007, Brian Keenan, "The Tollund Men", in Ideas, Insights and Arguments: A Non-fiction Collection (ed. Michael Marland), Cambridge University Press (2007), →ISBN, page 227:

     But as I came to know each of them in the confines of this room, I began to reunderstand that each man's humanity and capacity to love expresses itself in different forms.

   • 2010, Sebastian Junger, War, Twelve (2010), →ISBN:

     It seemed to me like I either had to radically reunderstand the men on this hilltop or I had to acknowledge the power of a place like this to change men.

Anagrams

• under-stander, understander