From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishre-formre-form /ˌriː ˈfɔːm $ -ɔːrm/ verb [intransitive, transitive] START TO HAPPEN, EXIST ETCto start to exist again or to make something start to exist again At the end of the year, the company re-formed.→ See Verb table
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re-form• The band isn't re-forming.• In the event of one partner serving notice to dissolve the firm, the others may choose to re-form.• When Charles's troops had re-formed, battle began again.• A map of Lough Erne resembles a giant spoonful of quicksilver emptied over Ireland to form and re-form in myriad fluid blobs.• The underlying approach of codification in re-forming the law has stressed the mechanistic nature of legal reasoning as essentially a syllogistic exercise.• The soldiers re-formed their line five deep at the entrance.• The team has reported to the Executive Team and will be re-formed to implement recommendations.• The nuclear membrane will not be re-formed until chromosome division is complete.• The watercourses wander, breaking and re-forming with the seasons. 