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rebutton

vb. (context transitive English) To fasten with buttons again.

Usage examples of "rebutton".

Miriam rebuttons her blouse and fastens her skirt before heading to the bathroom.

The backs of his fingers skimmed her soft flesh when he rebuttoned her blouse.

Now, therefore, looking at his watch, and consulting his time table, he got his slim valise from under on top of the seat before him, together with his hat-case, despatch-box, stick, and umbrella, and brushed off with his handkerchief some of the gritty railway dust that lay drifted in exterior folds and hollows of his coat, rebuttoned that garment with precision, arranged his shirt-collar, stuffed his muffler into his coat-pocket, and made generally that rude sacrifice to the graces with which natty men precede their exit from the dust and ashes of this sort of sepulture.

And Colonel Starbottle knew this, as, perspiring, florid, and panting, he rebuttoned the lower buttons of his blue frock-coat, which had become loosed in an oratorical spasm, and readjusted his old-fashioned, spotless shirt frill above it as he strutted from the court-room amidst the handshakings and acclamations of his friends.

He pulled her sleeve down, rebuttoned the cuff, and was gone before she could wake to answer.

A pause, and Harvey appeared rebuttoning his overcoat and honking into his handkerchief.

I closed the panel and started rebuttoning my bloody shirt, as if hiding the evidence might help.