reinserting

Returning to place

Reinserting is putting something back into a place or position it occupied before.

A surgeon reinserts a dislocated joint.

You reinsert a SIM card after switching phones.

After editing, she reinserting the paragraph she'd cut.

The prefix re- emphasizes return to a prior state.

restoration

reintroduction

Act of bringing back

reimplantation · transplant · prosthesis · implant · graft · stent · shunt · valve · catheter · suture

continuation

resuming

Beginning again after pause

reengaging · reentering · recommencing · reintegrating · reinstating · reestablishing · reconnecting · reincorporating · restoring · renewing

correction

adjusting

Altering to correct

updating · editing · redrafting · reworking · retyping · re-entering · resubmitting · restoring · replacing · fixing

Opposites
direction of placement

reinsertingremoving

Taking something out

extracting · withdrawing · pulling out · taking out · detaching

sequence/repetition

reinsertinginserting

Placing within something

Family

reinsertion, reinsertions

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