1. To be born again in a different body, according to beliefs about life after death.
2. To appear or be brought back in a different form after an earlier existence has ended.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- be reincarnated as someone
- be reincarnated in another body
- believe someone is reincarnated
On the page
She believed her brother would be reincarnated, though she could not say in what form.
In the story, the dead ruler is reincarnated as a child who remembers the palace.
The abandoned hotel was reincarnated as an artists’ residence.
Her childhood fear was reincarnated in the silent figure at the end of the hall.
Word forms
- Base
- reincarnate
- Past tense
- reincarnated
- Past participle
- reincarnated
- Present participle
- reincarnating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- reincarnate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are reincarnating
- Present perfect
- have/has reincarnated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been reincarnating
- Past
- reincarnated
- Past continuous
- was/were reincarnating
- Past perfect
- had reincarnated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been reincarnating
- Future
- will reincarnate
- Future continuous
- will be reincarnating
- Future perfect
- will have reincarnated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been reincarnating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Usually passive: be reincarnated as someone or something. Forms: reincarnates; reincarnated; reincarnated; reincarnating. Ordinary personal prediction: will be reincarnated. Active use is possible with an agent imagined to bring about the return. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common in religious or figurative discussion (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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