| 单词 | reignite |
| 释义 | reignite (once / 19408 pages) v To reignite something is to light it on fire again. If you want to reignite your campfire after pouring a pail of water on it, you'll have to find some dry wood. You can literally reignite things like gas stoves, birthday candles, or sparklers if their flames have been extinguished. You can also figuratively reignite something by making it flare up in some way: "The release of the balloons at the end of the rally was sure to reignite the crowd's excitement." This word adds the "again" prefix re- to ignite, from the Latin root ignis, "fire." WORD FAMILYreignite: reignited, reignites, reigniting+/ignite: ignitable, ignited, igniter, ignites, ignitible, igniting, ignition, reignite/igniter: igniters/ignition: ignitions USAGE EXAMPLESBy intervening, however, the central government would risk reigniting the passions that flared in 2014 when demonstrators paralysed business districts with sit-ins for several weeks. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) One Middle Eastern certainty is that it will reignite. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) These are just some of the things that people working to reignite journalism at a grass-roots level are trying. Salon(Dec 30, 2016) v ignite anew, as of something burning The strong winds reignited the cooling embers Hyper ignite, light cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat |
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