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re-enact

re-enact is the alternative spelling of reenact.

Meaning of reenact

Verb

reenact (third-person singular simple present reenacts, present participle reenacting, simple past and past participle reenacted)

  1. To enact again.
  2. To recreate an event, especially a historical battle.

Forms of re-enact

third-person singular presentre-enacts
present participlere-enacting
past participlere-enacted
pastre-enacted

Questions about re-enact

What is re-enact the alternative spelling of?
Re-enact is the alternative spelling of reenact.

Words near re-enact in the dictionary

  1. re-employs
  2. re-enable
  3. re-enabled
  4. re-enables
  5. re-enabling
  6. re-enact
  7. re-enacted
  8. re-enacting
  9. re-enactment
  10. re-enactments
  11. re-enactor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-enact (page history and authors); reenact (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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