MEANING
1. To answer a remark promptly, often with a pointed, witty, or irritated response.
2. To join someone or something again after an absence, interruption, or separation.
Use it for
introducing a direct reply to an argument; reporting a pointed counterargument; writing an exchange with a sharp or witty response; distinguishing a reply from an initial assertionProvides a formal reporting verb for a pointed reply while keeping the ordinary joining-again sense separate. Writing functions: Argumentation, Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- rejoin that
- rejoin with a question
- rejoin sharply
On the page
The critic rejoined that a change in terminology did not resolve the contradiction.
“Only if we accept your premise,” Mara rejoined.
After the interview, she rejoined the others beside the gate.
The conservator rejoined the two broken sections without concealing the old fracture.
Word forms
- Base
- rejoin
- Past tense
- rejoined
- Past participle
- rejoined
- Present participle
- rejoining
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- rejoin
- Present continuous
- am/is/are rejoining
- Present perfect
- have/has rejoined
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been rejoining
- Past
- rejoined
- Past continuous
- was/were rejoining
- Past perfect
- had rejoined
- Past perfect continuous
- had been rejoining
- Future
- will rejoin
- Future continuous
- will be rejoining
- Future perfect
- will have rejoined
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been rejoining
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Verb: rejoin; rejoins; rejoined; rejoined; rejoining. Future: will rejoin. Reply use often introduces quoted speech. Joining use is normally transitive: rejoin a group or rejoin two parts. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon in the reply sense; common in the joining sense (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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