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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
re-form
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a group re-forms (=the members decide to play together again)
▪ The group has re-formed and is planning a series of comeback concerts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The band isn't re-forming.
▪ The soldiers re-formed their line five deep at the entrance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A map of Lough Erne resembles a giant spoonful of quicksilver emptied over Ireland to form and re-form in myriad fluid blobs.
▪ In the event of one partner serving notice to dissolve the firm, the others may choose to re-form.
▪ The nuclear membrane will not be re-formed until chromosome division is complete.
▪ The team has reported to the Executive Team and will be re-formed to implement recommendations.
▪ The underlying approach of codification in re-forming the law has stressed the mechanistic nature of legal reasoning as essentially a syllogistic exercise.
▪ The watercourses wander, breaking and re-forming with the seasons.
▪ When Charles's troops had re-formed, battle began again.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Re-form

Re-form \Re-form"\ (r?*f?rm"), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Re-formed (-f?rmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Re-forming.] To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
re-form

"form again," mid-14c., from re- + form (v.). Related: Re-formed; re-forming; re-formation.

Wiktionary
re-form

vb. (alternative spelling of reform English)

Usage examples of "re-form".

The floor stilled its tidal motion, the bathwater returned to post-ablution grunginess, the mirror shards re-formed into an unbroken looking glass and Fiamma looked within and found her reflection pleasing.

The tawdry procession re-formed and weaved off through the gate down the common line of the Via Latina and the Via Appia, with half the people from the marketplace following and cheering.

But there was no time for the Federal lines to re-form, for the officers to pull their men together.

Though hustled and broken they re-formed and clung doggedly to their task, firing at the groups of Boers who surrounded the guns.

The machines were overhauled, a few engines were changed, and some of the crews were re-formed.

Lady Vasilia expressed her savage pleasure, my positronic pathway pattern re-formed in an anomalous fashion.

This just made matters worse, infuriating an already defiant population, and as fast as troopers put the rebellion down in one place, it just popped up in another, regrouping and re-forming faster than it could be dispersed.

At the vaunted enemy infantry was wavering, evidently shaken by theae easy victory of the 778th, and so the Colonel shouted at his sepoys to ignore the gunners and re-form and push on to attack the infantry.

It moved its articulators, formed and re-formed them, moved across the room and returned.

Company buglers heard and blew it, and as they started back toward the rise they'd ridden from, squads and platoons began re-forming on their guidons, while a bugler worked his way toward his marshal, to serve him.

It must have been done by the Ethicals, though anybody in the area to witness the re-forming had been overcome by something—probably a gas—and slept through the whole project.

The foreign bodies must be allowed to encyst and the synovial fluid will re-form.

So with great reluctance Buhle ordered his drivers to mount up, re-formed his column, and led it back out onto the hard-surfaced road that had taken them there.

According to the priest at Holy Re-formed, fasting was observed between the midnight mass and the high mass Christmas morning, but everyone, including the bishop's envoy, ate heartily of the roast pheasant and goose and stewed rabbit in saffron gravy.

Now the President's head re-formed, facing her on the horizontal plane.