rejoin1
/riːˈdʒɔɪn
/verb [with object]
1Join together again; reunite: the stone had been cracked and crudely rejoined...
- Picking the blade back up, she removed her stomach, sliced it in four as she had with her hips, and again rejoined the parts together on the other side of the bars.
- The 3.3 km road, costing £65 million, will bypass Blunsdon village by routing through fields to the west, before rejoining the current route of the A419 at the bottom of Blunsdon Hill.
- I sighed, letting my finger fall away from his lips and rejoin its companions at their natural resting place at my side.
1.1Return to (a companion, organization, or route that one has left): the soldiers were returning from leave to rejoin their unit...
- Croft thanked her again and rejoined his friends.
- She rejoined her friends with complaints of an upset stomach as the excuse for her lengthy absence.
- He rolled his eyes, walking away to rejoin his friends.
Synonyms
return to, be reunited with, come/get/go back to, join again, find one's way back to, reach again, regain, reattain
rejoin2
/rɪˈdʒɔɪn/verb [reporting verb]
Say something in reply, typically in a quick or critical manner: [with direct speech]: ‘It’s nice to talk under the stars.’ ‘No stars tonight,’ he rejoined...
- The upper deck rejoined with snide remarks about the purple empire.
- ‘She killed herself,’ he replied matter-of-factly. ‘Finally escaped you,’ I rejoined.
- ‘Our species is unable to learn from its mistakes,’ he rejoins, fatalistically, in the last words of his lectures.
Synonyms
answer, reply, respond, return, retort, riposte, come back, counter
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'reply to a charge in a lawsuit'): from Old French rejoindre, from re- 'again' + joindre 'to join'.