Reimplanted

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To implant something again after it has been removed
2. To surgically place a previously removed organ or tissue back into the body
3. To restore an object or material to its original position after dislodgement

Etymology: "Reimplanted" is the past tense and past participle of "reimplant," which means to plant, fix, or insert something again after it has been removed or displaced. The verb is built from the prefix "re-," meaning "again" or "back," attached to "implant," so the whole word literally means "planted again." The base verb "implant" comes from the Latin "implantare," formed from "in-" ("into") and "plantare" ("to plant"), itself from "planta," a sprout or shoot. The image is physical: pressing a living thing into the ground. English has long used "implant" in this literal horticultural sense before extending it to ideas, and later to medicine, where a device or tissue is set into the body. "Reimplant" follows the same pattern, so a surgeon restoring a tooth or a gardener replanting a seedling is using the same root idea twice over.

Synonyms: reinserted, replanted, reestablished, replaced

Antonyms: removed, extracted