# re-member

Pronunciation: US say "ree-MEM-bur" /ˌɹiˈmɛmbɚ/; UK say "ree-MEM-buh" /ˌɹiːˈmɛmbə/

## Verb

1. To reassemble or reconstitute something, especially a body, that has been dismembered or taken apart. *(rare)*
   - Simple: To put back together something whose parts had been torn or cut off.
   - _Restorers worked for months to re-member the temple frieze from thousands of scattered fragments._
   - _The legend describes how Isis re-membered the body that had been cut into pieces._

## Origin

Formed from the prefix re- combined with member.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/re-member (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
