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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reattach

Reattach \Re`at*tach"\ (r[=e]`[a^]t*t[a^]ch"), v. t. To attach again.

Note: The object reattached may have been an integral part which had never been "attached" (trans), e.g., to reattach a severed finger.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reattach

also re-attach, c.1600 in law; 1813 in a literal sense, from re- + attach. Related: Reattached; reattaching.

Wiktionary
reattach

vb. (alternative form of re-attach English)

Usage examples of "reattach".

The point is you want to try to keep this limb perfused while you get the surgeons in to see whether or not they can reattach the limb.

In spite of catgut sutures that were suitable for dogs but too large for human tendons, I was able to reattach them, and Mullen regained use of all but his middle finger, which was later repaired at the naval hospital at New Caledonia.

Harmon ended up spending an entire weekend fixing the holes in the drywall and reattaching the cable to the house and getting the siding popped back together.

It stopped in mid-arc, corrected its course, swooped back, and reattached itself to the neck stump.

When she came in, she was reattaching an enormous clip earring to her phone ear.

Though Jaina found the structure of the biotic computer hopelessly bewildering, Lowbacca was engrossed in dissecting the thing, using a small set of steristeel tools to snip here and move there, grunting in satisfaction as the fibers reattached themselves in new locations.

Three of the labs came back under their own power and were reattached, but the chem lab was completely short-circuited.

She spent the night curled up on Dalkey's hard mattress, dreaming of snaking tapes with matched ends that then split apart to reattach themselves to other loose ends, and satellite spheres with the face of Askell Klonski, and each wart on his face another capped sensor.

It does no good to reattach the wathan to a duplicated body because the duplicate isn’t the same as the original.

They used surgical titanium plates to reattach Molly's cervical spine to the orangutan's thoracic spine.

The drag rope therefore had to be untied, carried over the gate, and reattached on the far side.

Once he removed these two and set them aside, he would have to reattach the astromech socket and its ejector seat.

I had a horrible urge to run across that boneyard and yank the jaw away, or reattach it, anything so that bit of bone would stop waggling in the wind.

Couldn't reattach the fingers, though, too much tissue damage-but Obo doesn't seem to mind.

His fatigue will keep him asleep now oxygen tank has been reattached.