Meaning of reeat | Babel Free
Definitions
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To eat again. transitive
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Rare spelling of reeat. alt-of, rare
Examples
“Fig. 1.4(c) is a nutrient cycle based on leaves which fall into shallow esturine water leaf fragments acted on by saprotrophs and colonised by algae are eaten and reeaten (coprophagy) by a key group of small detritus consumers[…]”
“The dog reeats its own vomit and the pig once dry returns to the mud: so also Judas, after lamenting for a brief spell the death of the divine mouth, oron, reverts to keen envy.”
“Cecotrophs are formed from the remainder of the digestible material. These are full of nutrients and are passed to the outside to be reeaten by the rabbit.”
“I opened the stomach of a seal of aldermanic proportions, who looked as if he had lately been attending a civic feast , and found in it, not turtle, but about a bushel of beautiful prawns, evidently just swallowed, and so fresh that we might have reëaten them ourselves, but for an unworthy prejudice.”
“Thus they may happen to be reëaten by man even before assimilation.”
“... and as bread eaten to-day may not be reëaten to-morrow , so a reality which set vital forces building the non-physical body this week can not set those forces at work next week.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.