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say it: ree-KLAS-i-fahy
reclassify is a verb meaning "classify anew, change the previous classification". It carries one recorded sense.
classify anew, change the previous classification
“The zoologists had to reclassify the mollusks after they found new species”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for reclassify come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.