reinvade

verb

re·in·vade (ˌ)rē-in-ˈvād

reinvaded; reinvading

transitive + intransitive

: to invade (something) again

… will show American industry how to exploit new technology faster and reinvade lost markets.—

Brian O'Reilly

The cultivated patches would have been abandoned after a couple of years as … weeds reinvaded and made clearing too difficult.—

Clive Ponting

reinvasion

(ˌ)rē-in-ˈvā-zhən

noun

plural reinvasions

… declared invasive yellow fever-carrying … mosquitoes eradicated in 1958, only to experience reinvasion in the decades to follow. —

Robert Lamb

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Such malleability has precedent: Versions of the H3N2 flu virus that have been bopping around since the ’60s are still finding new ways to reinvade us. —

Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022 If Russia does go ahead and reinvade Ukraine, what will happen to the $10 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline that's supposed to carry natural gas from Russia to Germany? —

David Meyer, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2022