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# reopen

«reopen» in Mova's school dictionary: **to open again after being closed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (reopen, reopens, reopened, reopening)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To reopen is to open again after being closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reopen/#m1)

2) To reopen something like a case, question or argument is to start dealing with it again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reopen/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life shops, schools and roads reopen after holidays, repairs or storms. In news a police case may be reopened. In stories an old wound or quarrel is reopened.

### examples

- The swimming pool will reopen after the repairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reopen/#x1)
- School reopens on Monday after the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reopen/#x2)
- The road reopened once the fallen tree was moved. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reopen/#x3)
- The café reopened under a new owner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reopen/#x4)
- Don't reopen that argument again! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reopen/#x5)
- The police reopened the old case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reopen/#x6)

### note

Written as one word, no hyphen. The prefix re- means «again». Noun: reopening.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reopen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reopen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.