revalidate

verb

re·​val·​i·​date (ˌ)rē-ˈva-lə-ˌdāt 

revalidated; revalidating

transitive verb

: to validate again or anew: such as

a

: to make (something) legal or valid again

Her mother had revalidated her Cuban teaching credentials and begun teaching school.

—Linda Marx

also : to grant official sanction to (something) again

had to get his visa revalidated

b

: to recognize or prove (something) anew as worthy or legitimate

… the fact that Tyler Perry felt that that song somehow represented his story sort of revalidated my feeling.

—Melissa Manchester

revalidation

(ˌ)rē-ˌva-lə-ˈdā-shən 

noun

plural revalidations

revalidation of a visa

Examples of revalidate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Permissions should be temporary and tied to specific actions, and sensitive or consequential tasks should be revalidated by a third-party system or human. — Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026

The bill does not establish mechanisms to address the provider shortage, though Oz has previously said that all states will have to revalidate all of their providers, which has led to months of disruption in Minnesota. — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 15 June 2026

By this point, Minnesota’s Human Services agency had already suspended new licenses in certain programs and started hiring additional staff to revalidate providers, as Oz had already threatened action against the state in December. — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 5 June 2026

The Minnesota Department of Human Services set out to revalidate thousands of providers in programs deemed high risk for fraud by asking providers to submit verification paperwork and making unannounced site visits. — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 3 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1602, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for revalidate

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