redie

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See also: rēdie, and rédie

English

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Etymology

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From re- +‎ die.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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redie (third-person singular simple present redies, present participle redying, simple past and past participle redied)

  1. (nonstandard, intransitive) To die again.
    • 1972, John Barth, Chimera Pa, →ISBN, page 105:
      [] until Athene had scalped, rebodied, and revived her — whereupon her first request was to redie at once if she was Gorgon still. An odd thing was that, once brought back, she could recall all her dead head's doings []
    • 2009, Peter Metevelis, Japanese Mythology and the Primeval World, →ISBN, page 146:
      [] with such company as Gilgamesh, who though mortal was part human and part divine; the Japanese deity Ninigi, who though originally divine became mortal; Sumerian Dumuzi, who though divine was required repeatedly to redie; []

Anagrams

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French rédie.

Noun

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redie f (plural redii)

  1. redia

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