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Definition of "reconsider" []

  • To consider again, especially with intent to alter or modify a previous decision. (verb-transitive)
  • To take up for reconsideration, as a matter previously acted on by a legislature. (verb-transitive)
  • To consider again, often with alteration or modification in mind. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "reconsider" in a sentence
  • "We saw that they admitted in that letter (see page 16 of the Parliamentary Papers on Cholera) the limited nature of the proofs upon which their opinion was formed; but I had not the reasons which I supposed I had for concluding, that because they used the words "ready to reconsider," in their communication of the 18th of same month to the Council, they intended to _reconsider_ the whole question."
  • "In addition, Deleuze's theory of "affect" helps us to reconsider from a post-phenomenological perspective what it might mean for a poem to represent the"
  • "People criticize Bush for putting other people's children in harm's way without having to risk his own, but the real problem isn't that Jenna and Barb aren't Marines, it's that Bush seems so weirdly oblivious to the disaster he's created in Iraq that the ONLY way he'd reconsider is if his children were there."