Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give back; restore.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give again; to give back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
give again that which has been received as agift . - verb To give back.
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Examples
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Now don't tell me you've never done this: You rewrap a gift and regive it with a bit of a blush.
Holiday hockey wishes are coming true in several cities 2006
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Bid him drive back his cir, and reimport The period pad, regive the given hour.
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And even if “gift” and “give” are virtually synonymous, “regift” and “regive” have very different connotations, don’t they?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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And even if “gift” and “give” are virtually synonymous, “regift” and “regive” have very different connotations, don’t they?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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