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relume

American  
[ri-loom] / rɪˈlum /

verb (used with object)

relumed, reluming
  1. to light or illuminate again; relumine.


relume British  
/ rɪˈluːm, rɪˈluːmɪn /

verb

  1. archaic (tr) to light or brighten again; rekindle

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Etymology

Origin of relume

1595–1605; re- + (il)lume; compare French rallumer, Late Latin relūmināre. See relumine

Example Sentences

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Chrysler, which insists that it cannot afford higher wages, wants its Canadian employees to return to work and then relume negotiations in January, as U.S. employees have agreed to do.

From Time Magazine Archive

After hours of darkness, New Yorkers began to wonder of their city, as Othello did of doomed Desdemona, . . . where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume?

From Time Magazine Archive

Ever so slowly, Con Edison found enough of it to relume sections of the city.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Come, bright Imagination come, relume Thy orient lamp.”

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna

Thy propped house crumbles; let my arm sustain Its tottering base—thy light is on the wane, Let me relume it.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma