rekindle

From re- +‎ kindle.

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rekindle (third-person singular simple present rekindles, present participle rekindling, simple past and past participle rekindled)

1. (transitive) To kindle again.
2. (intransitive) To be kindled or ignited again.
3. (transitive, figurative) To revive.

   After being abroad for a decade, when he came back he rekindled his obsession with cricket.

   • 2015 October 1, Mark Tennis, “State’s Greatest Closed High Schools”, in Cal-Hi Sports‎^[1]:

     It was rekindled this summer when going through the all-time football scores for St. Mary’s of Stockton and Oakdale (two of the top programs in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section) and I discovered that both of them can still count their worst losses as being to Stockton High at 78-0 and 90-0, respectively.

rekindle (plural rekindles)

1. Synonym of reflash.

• Elderkin, delinker, linkered, nerdlike, relinked