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# reopen

verb (reopen, reopens, reopened, reopening)

«reopen» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To reopen is to open again after being closed. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reopen/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «reopen» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reopen/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«reopen» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/reopen.html) on Mova free.