reconnect

verb

re·​con·​nect (ˌ)rē-kə-ˈnekt How to pronounce reconnect (audio)
reconnected; reconnecting; reconnects

transitive + intransitive

: to connect again
The project … is reconnecting a road that was buried after a massive landslide …Juan Reyes
The organization also hosts family workshops that allow returning servicemen and women to reconnect with their children through woodworking projects such as bird houses.Deborah Sullivan Brennan

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Malibu has always been our escape, our place to slow down and reconnect. The Editors Of Ad, Architectural Digest, 7 Feb. 2025 This daylong retreat will help improve your relationship communication skills and reconnect as a couple. Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025 The group will try and reconnect the man’s body with any living descendants, according to the release, allowing him to be reburied on German soil or at the wishes of his family. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2025 Your surgeon will then use small, self-dissolving stitches to reconnect the ends of the fallopian tubes to the uterus. Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for reconnect 

Word History

First Known Use

1700, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of reconnect was in 1700

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“Reconnect.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reconnect. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

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