reassemble

verb

re·​as·​sem·​ble (ˌ)rē-ə-ˈsem-bəl How to pronounce reassemble (audio)
reassembled; reassembling; reassembles
1
transitive : to assemble (something) again : to bring or put together the parts of (something) again
reassemble a committee
Internet traffic is broken up into small chunks of data called "packets" that travel through the wires separately and then are reassembled by the computer or mobile device that's receiving them.David Choffnes
2
intransitive : to come together again : to assemble again
San Francisco has a bye this week during which most of the healthy players will leave town until the team reassembles next Monday.Matt Barrows

Examples of reassemble in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web However, this source said hiding the rifle in his backpack would require a significant amount of disassembling and reassembling the rifle, and that the more likely scenario is that Crooks hid the rifle behind the AC unit. Jake Gibson, Fox News, 20 July 2024 With both the House and the Senate controlled by the GOP, Trump needs to reassemble his own party in order to live up to his electoral ambitions. Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2016 The purple big bad rose above the San Diego Padre's baseball stadium before the drones reassembled into the Fantastic Four logo, accompanied by fireworks. Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 26 July 2024 That process inevitably led to the creation of a multiverse, which turned the MCU into a meta-textual jigsaw puzzle that could only be reassembled by looking for stray pieces off-screen. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for reassemble 

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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of reassemble was in the 15th century

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“Reassemble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reassemble. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.

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