rejoin

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: re=join

CIDE DICTIONARY

rejoin, v. t. [F. rejoindre; pref. re- re- + joindre to join. See Join, and cf. Rejoinder.].

•  To join again; to unite after separation.  [1913 Webster]
•  To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.  [1913 Webster]

  "Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot."  [1913 Webster]
•  To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.  [1913 Webster]

rejoin, v. i. 

•  To answer to a reply.  [1913 Webster]
•  To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rejoin, v.
1 tr. & intr. join together again; reunite.
2 tr. join (a companion etc.) again.

rejoin, v.
1 tr. say in answer, retort.
2 intr. Law reply to a charge or pleading in a lawsuit.

Etymology

ME f. OF rejoindre rejoign- (as RE-, JOIN)

THESAURUS

rejoin

acknowledge, answer, answer back, come back, come back at, come in, confute, countercharge, counterclaim, echo, flash back, give acknowledgment, give answer, make a rebuttal, react, rebut, reecho, refute, reply, respond, retort, return, return answer, return for answer, reverberate, riposte, say, say in reply, shoot back, surrebut, surrejoin, talk back

ROGET THESAURUS

rejoin

Assemblage

VB assemble, collect, muster, meet, unite, join, rejoin, cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate, congregate, conglomerate, concentrate, precipitate, center round, rendezvous, resort, come together, flock get together, pig together, forgather, huddle, reassemble, assemble, muster, bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together, collect, collocate, colligate, get, whip in, gather, hold a meeting, convene, convoke, convocate, rake up, dredge, heap, mass, pile, pack, put up, truss, cram, acervate, agglomerate, aggregate, compile, group, aggroup, concentrate, unite, collect into a focus, bring into a focus, amass, accumulate, collect in a dragnet, heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Arrival

VB arrive, get to, come to, come, reach, attain, come up with, come up to, overtake, make, fetch, complete, join, rejoin, light, alight, dismount, land, go ashore, debark, disembark, put in, put into, visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent, sit down, get to one's journey's end, make the land, be in at the death, come back, get back, come home, get home, return, come in, make one's appearance, drop in, detrain, deplane, outspan, de-orbit, come to hand, come at, come across, hit, come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon, meet, encounter, rencounter, come in contact.

Answer

VB answer, respond, reply, rebut, retort, rejoin, give for answer, return for answer, acknowledge, echo, explain, solve, discover, fathom, hunt out, satisfy, set at rest, determine.