reinvestigate

verb

re·​in·​ves·​ti·​gate (ˌ)rē-in-ˈve-stə-ˌgāt 

reinvestigated; reinvestigating

transitive verb

: to investigate (something) again

… decided to use modern police methods to reinvestigate the case.

—Robert Wainwright

reinvestigation

(ˌ)rē-in-ˌve-stə-ˈgā-shən 

noun

plural reinvestigations

During the past 30 years, new discoveries and reinvestigations of long-forgotten specimens have coalesced into a flood of transitional fossils.

—Maureen Greenbaum

Examples of reinvestigate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The president can scarcely complain about the FBI wasting its time when Patel espoused conspiracy theories before his appointment, and when agents have been reinvestigating (yet again) the 2020 election results in Georgia. — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 15 July 2026

However, the families of Nuria and Selena raised concerns, prompting the Met Police’s Specialist Crime Review Group to review the initial probe and then reinvestigate the crash, the police said in May. — Adam England, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026

Based on these new measurements, astronomers may have to reinvestigate our understanding of our galaxy's mass distribution, rotation and overall structure. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 7 July 2026

But in a paper published in 2024, scientists reinvestigated Rosetta’s analysis of comet 67P — and found that space may have tampered with the data. — Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1802, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reinvestigate

• abbreviate
• accelerate
• accommodate
• accumulate
• acuminate
• adjudicate
• adulterate
• affiliate
• agglomerate
• agglutinate
• alleviate
• amalgamate