reintroduce

verb

re·​in·​tro·​duce (ˌ)rē-ˌin-trə-ˈdüs 

-ˈdyüs

reintroduced; reintroducing

transitive verb

: to introduce (someone or something) again

efforts to reintroduce the animals into the wild

They'd been touring hard, reintroducing themselves to audiences nearly a decade after going their separate ways.

—James Sullivan

… the company has taken the bold step of reintroducing hits from the past.

—Lynn Yaeger

reintroduction

(ˌ)rē-ˌin-trə-ˈdək-shən 

noun

plural reintroductions

Three years later it became the core site for reintroduction of the red wolf, a species officially extinct in the wild.

—Cheryl Lyn Dybas

Examples of reintroduce in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

According to Grow Jungles, jaguar sightings near the Texas border encouraged discussions around reintroducing the animal to wildlife refuges. —Julia James, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026

In the mid-1990s, when endangered gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, the only state in the Lower 48 with a population greater than a few dozen was Minnesota. —Jonathan Wood, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2026

Levin helped reintroduce the bill. —Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026

But after nearly two decades of hard work, conservationists are finally reintroducing a new generation of the tiny, fluorescent amphibians back into the tropical island’s ecosystem. —Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1642, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reintroduce

• abstruse
• abuse
• adduce
• atreus
• caboose
• cayuse
• conduce
• deduce
• diffuse
• disuse
• excuse
• footloose