Reopening

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the act of opening something again

    "Grove: After many years of unproductive discussion, the reopening of the London-Bristol line station to serve the nearby town of Wantage is back on the agenda."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of reopen form-of, gerund, participle, present

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fresh startrenewalresumption

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"By freeing thought from its object, Descartes made it possible to view the latter in strictly mechanical terms, reopening the way to science, suffocated for more than fifteen centuries under religious nonsense."

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