All 3 Uses of
establish
in
A Passage to India
- The atmosphere of a sick-room was at once re-established, and the invalid retired under his quilt.
Chpt 9 *re-established = restoredstandard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-established means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
- He knew that the defence had some wild hope of establishing an alibi, that they had tried (unsuccessfully) to identify the guide, and that Fielding and Hamidullah had gone out to the Kawa Dol and paced and measured all one moonlit night.
Chpt 24establishing = creating
- This is Heaslop's punishment for abducting our witness in order to stop us establishing our alibi.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place