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Regrate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    to grate again

    "The Parmesan cheese needs to be regrated into smaller bits."

  2. 2
    To purchase goods from a market in order to resell them at the same (or nearby) market at an inflated price.
  3. 3
    To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
  4. 4
    To offend; to shock.

    "whose clothing may regrate the eye"

Etymology

French regratter (“to scrape again”).

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