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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
re-adjust

also readjust, 1742, from re- "back, again" + adjust. Related: Readjusted; readjusting.

Usage examples of "re-adjust".

The vibration lasted an eternity as overstressed metal fought to re-adjust itself, as steel compressed and stretched far beyond specified breaking loads.

Then you black out for a few weeks while your body attempts to re-adjust to the activity levels of the planet.

When I am done, it does not take long but the subjective feeling of passage is very intense and I am calling of course on all the other times that I have been in this room, there is a long, dim silence during which they grumble at one another and re-adjust their positions.

And now Lysander was sprawled on the same low sofa, huddled in Ferdie's long, dark blue overcoat, re-adjusting his long legs, yet as seductive in his drooping passivity as Narcissus or Balder the Beautiful.