recommence
- v  cause to start anew
                    
                        
                            
The enemy recommenced hostilities after a few days of quiet - v  begin again
                    
                        
                            
we recommenced his reading after a short nap 
- Such an omission is particularly alarming when Jakarta security officials themselves knew that JI had at least one cache of explosives in the city and was eager to recommence its .
 - But Japan has said it needs to recommence hunting one of conservationists' most beloved species to further marine research.
 - The ruling effectively allowed executions by lethal injection to recommence after a seven-month unofficial moratorium.