re-occupied

as inrecover
as inresume
as inreassume
as inreoccupy
as inretake

Synonyms for re-occupied

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Word Origin & History

mid-14c., "to take possession of," also "to take up space or time, employ (someone)," irregularly borrowed from Old French occuper "occupy (a person or place), hold, seize" (13c.) or directly from Latin occupare "take over, seize, take into possession, possess, occupy," from ob "over" (see ob-) + intensive form of capere "to grasp, seize" (see capable). The final syllable of the English word is difficult to explain, but it is as old as the record; perhaps from a modification made in Anglo-French. During 16c.-17c. a common euphemism for "have sexual intercourse with" (sense attested from early 15c.), which caused it to fall from polite usage.

Related: Occupied; occupying.

Example Sentences for re-occupied

He had from thence, accompanied by them, gone to Shetland, where he had re-occupied his farm.

We reached Hammerfest on the last day of July, and re-occupied our old quarters.

In places the old valleys were left to be re-occupied by the rivers.

The Muhammedans re-occupied it, and remain there to this day.

It may be re-occupied soon on account of the discoveries of gold and copper in the region.

The cawing of the rooks in February shows that the time is coming when their nests will be re-occupied.

In that year Ngati-Whatua began to return to the Isthmus, but none of the old hill forts were re-occupied.

It was abandoned at the close of the Revolution, but was re-occupied for a short time by American troops in 1801.

At the same time another Russian horde, under Romanzow, re-occupied Pomerania.

Thus after five months of fighting and running, the Army of Tennessee re-occupied Dalton.