reunderstand

English

Etymology

From 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^[1], Baker Books, →ISBN:

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

   • 2007, Brian Keenan, “The Tollund Men”, in Michael Marland, editor, Ideas, Insights and Arguments: A Non-fiction Collection, Cambridge University Press, →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, →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