reweave
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]reweave (third-person singular simple present reweaves, present participle reweaving, simple past rewove, past participle rewoven)
- To weave again, to weave back.
- 1912, Jean-Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life of the Spider chapter 10
- The web is generally shattered after the night's hunting and is nearly always rewoven on the following evening.
- 1912, Jean-Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life of the Spider chapter 10
Usage notes
[edit]- The regularly formed simple past tense and past participle reweaved is attested as well, but is much less common.