🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

rouvrir

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ʁu.pʁiʁ/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Reopen/ˌriːˈoʊ.pən/
verbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2150 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Il ne faut pas rouvrir de vieilles blessures."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To open something again, such as a building, business, or case for official investigation.

    "The museum will reopen to the public next month after extensive renovations."
  2. 2

    To cause a past emotional hurt, grievance, or conflict to become active or painful again.

    "Bringing up that old argument only served to reopen old wounds between them."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix re- (expressing repetition or backward movement, from Latin re-) combined with the verb open (from Old English openian). The compound verb emerged in the late Middle English period to denote the action of opening something that had previously been closed.

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