"reconsider" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-reconsider.wav [US] Forms: reconsiders [present, singular, third-person], reconsidering [participle, present], reconsidered [participle, past], reconsidered [past]
Etymology: re- + consider Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|re|consider}} re- + consider Head templates: {{en-verb}} reconsider (third-person singular simple present reconsiders, present participle reconsidering, simple past and past participle reconsidered)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To consider a matter again. Tags: intransitive, transitive Translations (to consider a matter thought already to have been decided): преразглеждам (prerazgleždam) (Bulgarian), reconsiderar (Catalan), 重新考慮 (Chinese Mandarin), 重新考虑 (chóngxīn kǎolǜ) (Chinese Mandarin), heroverwegen (Dutch), harkita uudelleen (Finnish), miettiä vielä (Finnish), harkita vielä (Finnish), reconsidérer (French), überdenken (German), újra átgondol (Hungarian), felülvizsgál (Hungarian), riconsiderare (Italian), 再考する (saikō suru) (alt: さいこうする) (Japanese), recōgitō (Latin), ponownie rozważać [imperfective] (Polish), ponownie rozważyć [perfective] (Polish), reconsiderar (Portuguese), reconsidera (Romanian), пересма́тривать (peresmátrivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), пересмотре́ть (peresmotrétʹ) [perfective] (Russian), ath-smaoinich (Scottish Gaelic), reconsiderar (Spanish), ompröva (Swedish), tänka om (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-reconsider-en-verb-uHlJtHsy Disambiguation of 'to consider a matter thought already to have been decided': 84 16
  2. (informal) To change one's mind, with or without actually considering the matter again Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-reconsider-en-verb-wNnjNhKJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with re- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with re-: 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: think over, second-guess, re-consider Related terms: consider

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