reseal

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To seal (something) again (in any sense of "apply a seal to"). transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

reseals present,singular,third-person resealing participle,present resealed participle,past resealed past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-
Proto-Indo-European *-nóm
Proto-Italic *seknom
Latin signum
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lum
Latin sigillum
Anglo-Norman seelbor.
Middle English sel
English seal
English reseal
From re- + seal.
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