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REJOIN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Answer back

Synonyms:

come back; rejoin; repay; retort; return; riposte

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "rejoin" is one way to...):

answer; reply; respond (react verbally)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They rejoin that there was a traffic accident

Sense 2

Meaning:

Join again

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "rejoin" is one way to...):

fall in; get together; join (become part of; become a member of a group or organization)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

It blocks certain enzymes that break and rejoin DNA strands.

(LMP400, NCI Dictionary)

This agent binds to the DNA/DNA-gyrase complex and inhibits the A subunits of the enzyme thereby preventing the bacterial chromosome from rejoining.

(Gemifloxacin, NCI Thesaurus)

“Oh! she shall not do such a thing again,” eagerly rejoined Mrs. Elton.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Doing so ensures the protein can complete the second part of its job, which is rejoining DNA ends.

(DNA damage caused by cancer treatment reversed by ZATT protein, National Institutes of Health)

There was no help for it, certainly, rejoined Mrs. Norris, in a rather softened voice; but I question whether her headache might not be caught then, sister.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Why do you call to my remembrance,” I rejoined, circumstances of which I shudder to reflect, that I have been the miserable origin and author?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She would not herself stay in the house another day and was starting that very afternoon to rejoin her family at St. Ives.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But when he was thus separated from his fellows, two or three of the younger bulls would charge back upon Buck and enable the wounded bull to rejoin the herd.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

DNA Topology Regulation involves DNA topoisomerases that catalyze essential DNA transaction processes, including DNA strand scission, manipulation, and rejoining, in order to attain a balanced topology of the genome.

(DNA Topology Regulation, NCI Thesaurus)

"I never heard that," Haythorne rejoined. "In San Francisco the talk was all the other way."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)