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rematch

'ri:'mætʃ5 senses · 484 ms
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noun/ˈɹiː.mætʃ/
  1. 1

    A repeated contest staged between the same opponents or teams which played a previous contest.

    • After being beaten in pool by Melanie, John asked for a rematch.
  2. 2

    A reunion of a former couple into a new relationship.

    • The general requisites for remarriage are simply an evaluation of past failures and good, sincere intentions for the rematch.
    • It was Affleck who canceled their 2003 wedding four days before the event, citing the attendant media circus, but when they canceled the rematch, a planned wedding at his Georgia estate, it was by mutual consent.
verb/ɹiːˈmætʃ/
  1. 1

    To bring opponents together for such a contest.

  2. 2

    To stage such a contest.

  3. 3

    To match again or anew.transitive

    • We had to rematch the mixed-up parts.

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