rejoin1
verb /ˌriːˈdʒɔɪn/
/ˌriːˈdʒɔɪn/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they rejoin | /ˌriːˈdʒɔɪn/ /ˌriːˈdʒɔɪn/ |
| he / she / it rejoins | /ˌriːˈdʒɔɪnz/ /ˌriːˈdʒɔɪnz/ |
| past simple rejoined | /ˌriːˈdʒɔɪnd/ /ˌriːˈdʒɔɪnd/ |
| past participle rejoined | /ˌriːˈdʒɔɪnd/ /ˌriːˈdʒɔɪnd/ |
| -ing form rejoining | /ˌriːˈdʒɔɪnɪŋ/ /ˌriːˈdʒɔɪnɪŋ/ |
- rejoin (somebody/something) to join somebody/something again after leaving them
- to rejoin a club
- She turned off her phone and rejoined them at the table.
- The path goes through a wood before rejoining the main road.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘reply to a charge in a lawsuit’): from Old French rejoindre, from re- ‘again’ + joindre ‘to join’.