Reidentify
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Reidentify is a verb meaning (intransitive) To identify again (as something one previously identified as, or as something else).
Meaning
(intransitive) To identify again (as something one previously identified as, or as something else).
More Meanings
- (transitive) To identify (something or someone) again; to make identifiable again; to re-discern the identity of; especially, for example, to undo deidentification of.
Example Sentences
The decision to remain Catholic (or to reidentify as Catholic)[…]
To take each in turn, how likely is it that public health adversaries will reidentify data?
... with other scholars having discussed examples of African ethnic groups that came under pressure to reidentify as Indigenous peoples and […]
By constructing an ethnic identity for people who are stigmatized and suffering as consequence of their faith in Christ, Peter helps his addressees disidentify with their past and reidentify as the[…]
Word Forms
- reidentifies
- reidentifying
- reidentified
Antonyms for reidentify
Common opposites include deidentify, anonymize.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include know, redetect, rediscover, redetermine, re-define, redesignate.
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