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refire

verb

refire is a verb meaning “To fire again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-F-I-R-E, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does refire mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To fire again.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of refire

  • refires present, singular, he/she/it
  • refiring participle, present
  • refired participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is refire?

Refire appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does refire come from?

From re- + fire.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).