reidentified; reidentifying
Definition of reidentify
: to identify (someone or something) again
Cookies were first cooked up as a convenient way to make return visits to Web sites without having to reidentify yourself or your preferences. — Kiplinger's Personal Finance
also
: to give a new or different identity to
Reidentified by false names, they can never contact anyone who knew them before … — Jet
—often + as … when the work reemerged in 1967 it was sold at Sotheby's as Fuseli's portrait of Cartwright, but it was immediately reidentified as a self-portrait. — William L. Pressly
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The first known use of reidentify was in 1820
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