refasten

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to fasten something again after it has been opened or come loose

   They refastened the back door before searching the rest of the house.

A transparent English formation from the prefix re- ("again") + fasten. Fasten derives from Old English fæstnian ("to make firm or secure"), based on fæst ("firm").

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