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say it: ree-in-VENT
reinvent is a verb meaning "bring back into existence". It carries 2 recorded senses.
bring back into existence
“The candidate reinvented the concept of national health care so that he would get elected”
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 reinvent 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.