reestablish

verb

re·​es·​tab·​lish (ˌ)rē-i-ˈsta-blish 

variants or re-establish

reestablished or re-established; reestablishing or re-establishing

transitive verb

: to establish (something or someone) again

Within one year he rallied his forces, invaded the delta, and reestablished his rule.

—Harry A. Gailey, Jr.

Those deals allowed Washington to reestablish diplomatic relations with Egypt and Syria …

—Robert D. Kaplan

Thanks to an extended captive breeding program, the California condor stands a chance of reestablishing itself in the wild.

—Todd Wilkinson

"He quickly reestablished himself as a top pitcher, arguably the best in this draft," says one NL scout who saw him throw.

—Albert Chen

NASA scientists lost contact with it right after the craft was ordered to pressurize its fuel tanks. All attempts to reestablish contact have failed.

—Science Activities

reestablishment

(ˌ)rē-i-ˈsta-blish-mənt 

noun

or re-establishment

… the reestablishment of formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Holy See in 1984 …

—Thomas J. Reese

John's solitary tomb … is apt testimony to the central role of Florence in the re-establishment of the Roman Papacy.

—Richard Fremantle

Examples of reestablish in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In November 2022, the Ethiopian government and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front entered a cease-fire to end the Tigray war, but true peace has never been reestablished. —Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2024

And especially the heady years after reunification, when a global generation of designers and D.J.s reestablished the unlovely city as Europe’s beating heart. —Jason Farago, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024

For us dissidents, reaching the people to unify them with the idea of reestablishing freedom has become almost impossible. —Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024

In wins over Boston and New York, two of the best teams in the East, the Lakers took steps toward reestablishing some defensive identity. —Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024

Lola is using the entrance into Formula E as a way to reestablish itself as a leading motorsport design and engineering group. —Maury Brown, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024

The lander’s developer, Intuitive Machines, has been trying to reestablish communication with Odysseus in the hopes that a solar charge would restore its capabilities. —Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024

The craft briefly lost contact with Perseverance while landing, but communications were reestablished later. —George Petras, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024

This pre-conflict capacity would need to be fully restored by expanding scanning facilities, reestablishing dedicated trucking routes, and removing arbitrary requirements put in place after October 7. —Hardin Lang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above