Reintegrates

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Restores something to its previous condition or state of wholeness
2. Brings back together or returns someone or something to a prior status or unity
3. Reestablishes a previous state by returning parts to their original place or condition

Etymology: "Reintegrates" is the third-person singular present form of "reintegrate", so it is the form of a verb meaning to restore something to a unified whole. The verb is built from the prefix "re-", meaning again or back, and "integrate", which comes from the Latin "integrare", to make whole or renew, from "integer", meaning whole, untouched or intact. The Latin root is also the source of "integer" in arithmetic, a whole number. Its path into English ran through Old French, which took the Latin "re-" prefix and inherited it into Middle English, where "re-" joined the native English stem. The English verb "integrate" was then formed from the Latin stem, and "reintegrate" was built by adding the prefix "re-" to it. Each element of the word therefore carries its own history: a prefix meaning "again", and a stem meaning "whole".

Synonyms: restores, reunites, reassembles, reincorporates, rejoins

Antonyms: divides, separates, disassembles, dissociates, splits