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Definitions: Rekindle |
RekindleVerb1. Kindle anew, as of a fire. 2. Arouse again: "rekindle hopes"; "rekindle her love". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rekindle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Fire; set fire to, set on fire; kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, strike a light; apply the match to, apply the torch to; rekindle, relume; fan the flame, add fuel to the flame; poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire; make a bonfire of. |
Excitation | Fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan into a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rekindle |
| English words defined with "rekindle": Relume, Relumine. (references) |
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Screenplays | Now one ship, one crew, have vowed to drive back the night and rekindle the light of civilization. (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna) | |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | So let us reject any among us who seek to reopen old wounds and to rekindle old hatreds. |
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| "Rekindle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Rekindle" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 85.71% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rekindle the romance | 9 |
rekindle | 7 |
love rekindle | 7 |
marriage rekindle | 5 |
rekindle the flame | 3 |
rekindle relationship | 3 |
love marriage rekindle | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rekindle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نشط (activate, active, animate, bestir oneself, brisk, buoyant, elevate, ginger, harden, hum, invigorate, live, liven, pep up, perk up, pick up, practising, pushing, quick, quicken, reactivate, revive, rouse, stimulate, stringent, strong, vivify, waken), أضرم من جديد, أجج (inflame, kindle, revive), أشعل (burn, enkindle, fan the flame, fire, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, light up, lit, switch on, torch, turn on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | запалвам отново (relight, relume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 再振作. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | raviver (reanimate, reinvigorate, revive), ranimer (reanimate, relight, revive), rallumer, se ranimer, attiser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wiedererwecken (bring back to life, reawaken, revival, revive), wiedererwachen (reawake, reawaken, reawakening, renaissance), wieder entzünden (reinflame, to reinflame), wieder entflammen, wieder aufflackern, wieder anzünden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξανανάβω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lelkesedést önt (to rekindle), lángra lobbant (inflame, to inflame, to rekindle), felszít (to rekindle), fellobbant (flash, to flash, to rekindle), feléled (resuscitate, revive, to come to life, to rally, to rebound, to rekindle, to resuscitate, to revive, to wake), újraéleszt (revivify, to rekindle, to revitalize), újra meggyújt (relight, relit, relume, to rekindle, to relight), újból lángra lobban (to rekindle), újból feltüzel (to rekindle), újból felkelt (to rekindle), újból felgyullad (to rekindle), újból felajz (to rekindle), új (apostleship, apostolate, fresh, neologism, new, newness, novel, recent, reconsideration, reissue, to change the bill, to give a fillip to sy, to recruit, to rekindle, to resurrect, to resuscitate, to take a new lease of life, unused, young). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aaghreeshaghey (re-excite), aafoaddey (relight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ekindleray reaprinde. (various references) разжечь (kindle, light up), вновь зажечь. (various references) ath-bheothaich (refresh). (various references) ponovo zapaliti. (various references) reencender. (various references) yeniden yanmak, yeniden yakmak, yeniden ateşlemek, şiddetlendirmek (aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, intensify), alevlenmek (blaze out, blaze up, flame, flare, flare up, flicker), alevlendirmek (enkindle, fan, inflame, kindle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rekindle": rekindled, rekindles. (additional references) | |
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"Rekindle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arkendale, Raindle, Reidle, rekind. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rekindle" (pronounced rēki"ndul) |
| 6 | -k i" n d u l | kindle. |
| 5 | -i" n d u l | bindle, Brindle, dwindle, spindle, swindle, Windle. |
| 4 | -n d u l | bundle, candle, fondle, handle, manhandle, mishandle, panhandle, Rundle, sandal, scandal, trundle, unbundle, vandal. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, caboodle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, feudal, fiddle, genocidal, girdle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, intermodal, intertidal, ladle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, modal, model, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, saddle, Seidel, sidle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, tidal, toddle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, yodel. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: relinked. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-k-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: kindler, likened, redline, reinked, relined. | |
-2 letters: denier, kerned, kernel, kilned, kinder, kindle, kirned, lender, lieder, lierne, linked, linker, nereid, reined, relend, relied, reline, relink. | |
-3 letters: diene, diker, diner, drink, edile, eider, elder, elide, ender, idler, inked, inker, inkle, irked, kerne, kneed, kneel, liked, liken, liker, lined, liner, reink, riled. | |
-4 letters: deer, deil, deke, dele. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-k-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: blinkered, clinkered, rekindled, rekindles. | |
+3 letters: besprinkled, hyperlinked, interlinked, interlocked, sprinklered. | |
+5 letters: kindheartedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6B 69 6E 64 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.- .. -. -.. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100100 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e k i n d l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006B 0069 006E 0064 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271777580707871 |
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