RELIGHT Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

relight

verb

Definition of relight

as in to rekindle

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Recent Examples of relight The company also hopes to relight one of the Starship’s Raptor engines while in space. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 21 May 2026 SpaceX also intends for the upper stage to relight one of its six Raptor engines while in space, a key demonstration of technology needed for a deorbit burn when the spacecraft someday returns to Earth from space. — Denise Chow, NBC news, 17 May 2026 The Bureau of Engineering selected Tetra Tech, a global engineering firm, to fortify and relight the stretch of road that connects downtown Los Angeles to Boyle Heights, which has essentially gone dark due to the amount of copper theft plaguing the area. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026 Fisher knows how to operate in the NIL era, though, and getting fired could relight his flame. — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for relight

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Netflix in May also confirmed Grown Ups 3, the third film in a series about a group of childhood friends who rekindle their relationship as adults.

— Connor Greene, Time, 4 July 2026
With fans rooting for Carl and Aniya to rekindle their romance, curiosity about the Casa Amor contestant is at an all-time high.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 29 June 2026

Definition of rekindle

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The ship overcame the engine failure and continued flying toward a pinpoint water landing in the Indian Ocean, but SpaceX had to skip an attempt to reignite a Raptor engine in space.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026
The measure is likely to reignite a long-running debate over the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause, which has traditionally guaranteed citizenship to most people born on American soil.

— Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 14 July 2026

Definition of reignite

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The beat is crisp and skippy, the synth bass stonking, and carefully placed whorls of modular synth build to actual crowd-stoking drops.

— Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 July 2026
Trump has seized on primary wins by progressive Democrats to constantly stoke new fears about communism.

— Will Weissert, Fortune, 18 July 2026

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