reidentify
verb
re·iden·ti·fy
| \ (ˌ)rē-ī-ˈden-tə-ˌfī
, -ə-\
, -ə-\
reidentified;
reidentifying
Definition of reidentify
: to identify (someone or something) again
Cookies were first cooked up as a convenient way to make return visits to Web sites without having to reidentify yourself or your preferences. — Kiplinger's Personal Finance
also
: to give a new or different identity to
Reidentified by false names, they can never contact anyone who knew them before… — Jet
—often + as … when the work reemerged in 1967 it was sold at Sotheby's as Fuseli's portrait of Cartwright, but it was immediately reidentified as a self-portrait. — William L. Pressly