MEANING
To assess something again, often after additional information or changed conditions.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- reassess a risk
- reassess an interpretation
On the page
The team reassessed the risk after conditions changed.
The historian reassessed the interpretation using newly available letters.
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Word forms
- Base
- reassess
- Past tense
- reassessed
- Past participle
- reassessed
- Present participle
- reassessing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- reassess
- Present continuous
- am/is/are reassessing
- Present perfect
- have/has reassessed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been reassessing
- Past
- reassessed
- Past continuous
- was/were reassessing
- Past perfect
- had reassessed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been reassessing
- Future
- will reassess
- Future continuous
- will be reassessing
- Future perfect
- will have reassessed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been reassessing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: reassess; reassesses; reassessed; reassessed; reassessing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: renewed assessment, explicit formulation, classification and framing. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: reassesses.
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