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Plural of regain

regular plural

The plural of regain is regains.

Forms of regain

Singularregain /ɹiːˈɡeɪn/
Pluralregains
Countablecountable

Regains in a sentence

  • Then as the pulsar clock travels more slowly through the weakest part of.the field it regains time.2014, John Hussey, Bang to Eternity and Betwixt: Cosmos. From the entry pulsar clock
  • On the night before his execution he calls God in Arabic - "Bismillah" - and so regains his soul from Satan.2011 June 15, “Smashed Hits: What is a Bohemian Rhapsody?”, in BBC. From the entry bismillah
  • Gradually, she replaces her belief in Bill with a Zelda-like devotion to ballet, by which she regains her youthfulness.1995, Elizabeth Anne Weston, The International Theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Literature, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry Zelda-like

Meaning of regain

  1. verb To get back; to recover possession of.
  2. noun The act or process of regaining something.
  3. noun The amount of width a woven cloth grows by when the fibers swell, used to determine the width of the reed to use in weaving.

Full definition of regain

Questions about the plural of regain

What is the plural of regain?
The plural of regain is regains.
Is regain countable?
Regain is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: regain (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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