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reaffirm

UK/ɹiːəˈfɜːm//ˌɹiəˈfɝm/

reaffirm verb: to affirm again.

Verb

reaffirm (third-person singular simple present reaffirms, present participle reaffirming, simple past and past participle reaffirmed)

  1. To affirm again.
    • Amid the heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait, the Japan-US "2+2" (Foreign and Defense Ministerial Meeting) joint statement issued in Tokyo on March 16, 2021 noted that "the ministers underscored the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait". Needless to say, this statement was...2022 February 15, Hideya Kurata, “[Research Reports] "Ad Hoc US-China Concert" on the Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Strait Issue”, in Japan Institute of International Affairs, archived from the...
  2. To bolster or support.
    • The recent tragedy served only to reaffirm his faith.
    • They standardize the terminology that professionals should use with patients and reaffirms the role that an endocrinologist should play in the patient’s broader individualized care.2024 February 26, Jen Christiansen, “First on CNN: Major medical society re-examines clinical guidelines for gender-affirming care”, in CNN

reaffirm meaning in Bengali

reaffirm in Bengali

আবার নিশ্চিত করা, পুনরায় দৃঢ়ভাবে ঘোষণা করা, শক্তিশালী করা, সমর্থন করা

Examples of reaffirm in a sentence

  • The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets.
  • But the big man later reaffirmed his intentions on The Ringer NBA Show with Kevin O'Connor.
  • As if to reaffirm her imagination, the sun broke through the trees to limn his broad shoulders with gold.

All 13 example sentences with reaffirm

Forms of reaffirm

third-person singular presentreaffirms
present participlereaffirming
past participlereaffirmed
pastreaffirmed

Past tense of reaffirm: reaffirmed

Origin of reaffirm

From re- + affirm.

Words formed from reaffirm

Questions about reaffirm

What does reaffirm mean?
Reaffirm means to affirm again.
What is reaffirm in Bengali?
Reaffirm in Bengali is আবার নিশ্চিত করা, পুনরায় দৃঢ়ভাবে ঘোষণা করা, শক্তিশালী করা. See Reaffirm meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is reaffirm?
Reaffirm is a verb.
How do you pronounce reaffirm?
Reaffirm is pronounced /ɹiːəˈfɜːm/ (UK).
What is the past tense of reaffirm?
The past tense of reaffirm is reaffirmed.

Words near reaffirm in the dictionary

  1. reaffiliated
  2. reaffiliates
  3. reaffiliating
  4. reaffiliation
  5. reaffiliations
  6. reaffirm
  7. reaffirmance
  8. reaffirmances
  9. reaffirmation
  10. reaffirmations
  11. reaffirmed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reaffirm (page history and authors); reaffirm (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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