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Reenact   Listen
verb
Reenact, Re-enact  v. t.  
1.
To enact again.
2.
Specifically: To enact into law, again; as, Congress reenacted the environmental law, which had expired.
3.
To perform (an action) as a simulation of a prior event; as, She re-enacted what had happened earlier that day; the historical society reenacted the signing of the Declaration of Independence; the militia reenacted the battle of Trenton.
Synonyms: model, reenact, simulate, act out.






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"Reenact" Quotes from Famous Books



... to know how, but the repetition had struck me at the time as, in its terrible strangeness and incomprehensibility, almost mechanical,—as if the unseen actor could not exceed or vary, but was bound to re-enact the whole. One thing that struck me, however, greatly, was the likeness between the old minister and my boy in the manner of regarding these strange phenomena. Dr. Moncrieff was not terrified, as I had been myself, and all the rest of us. It ...
— The Open Door, and the Portrait. - Stories of the Seen and the Unseen. • Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant



Words linked to "Reenact" :   reenactment, re-create, represent, act out, play, ordain



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