"reseal" meaning in English

See reseal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: reseals [present, singular, third-person], resealing [participle, present], resealed [participle, past], resealed [past]
Etymology: From re- + seal. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|re|seal}} re- + seal Head templates: {{en-verb}} reseal (third-person singular simple present reseals, present participle resealing, simple past and past participle resealed)
  1. (transitive) To seal (something) again (in any sense of "apply a seal to"). Tags: transitive Derived forms: resealable, resealing Translations (to seal again): visszazár (Hungarian)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1976 December 18, Allen Young, “Speaking Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 5:",
          "text": "My CIA file included two first class letters written by me on Liberation News Service stationery and addressed to Moscow. […] I cannot tell from the xerox copies sent to me if the letters were opened at the CIA and the re-sealed and sent out, or if the CIA merely stole them from the mail. Neither letter ever received a response, as far as I can recall.",
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        "(transitive) To seal (something) again (in any sense of \"apply a seal to\")."
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          "sense": "to seal again",
          "word": "visszazár"
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