re-form

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++re-form /ˌriː ˈfɔːm $ -ɔːrm/ verb [intransitive, transitive] START TO HAPPEN, EXIST ETCto start to exist again or to make something start to exist again （使）重新形成；（使）重建 At the end of the year, the company re-formed. 年末公司重组。→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

re-form• The band isn't re-forming.• In the event of one partner serving notice to dissolve the firm, the others may choose to re-form.• When Charles's troops had re-formed, battle began again.• A map of Lough Erne resembles a giant spoonful of quicksilver emptied over Ireland to form and re-form in myriad fluid blobs.• The underlying approach of codification in re-forming the law has stressed the mechanistic nature of legal reasoning as essentially a syllogistic exercise.• The soldiers re-formed their line five deep at the entrance.• The team has reported to the Executive Team and will be re-formed to implement recommendations.• The nuclear membrane will not be re-formed until chromosome division is complete.• The watercourses wander, breaking and re-forming with the seasons.

re-form verbChinese

start start or to to something Corpus make exist again to

re-form
re-form /ˌriː ˈfɔːm $ -ɔːrm/