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reassert

/ˌɹiː.əˈsɜːt/US/ˌɹi.əˈsɝt/

reassert verb: to assert again.

Verb

reassert (third-person singular simple present reasserts, present participle reasserting, simple past and past participle reasserted)

  1. To assert again.
    • Gareth Bale gave his side hope with a goal shortly afterwards but the real damage was done and Chelsea reasserted their authority to finish easy winners with further goals from Ramires, Frank Lampard and Florent Malouda.2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC
    • They were tied to a revived religious class that took advantage of the end of anticlerical despotism to reassert Islamic views and practices and to regain some of their former sociopolitical status.2006, Nikki R. Keddie, Yann Richard, Modern Iran: roots and results of revolution, Yale University Press, page 120

reassert meaning in Bengali and Kannada

reassert in Bengali

পুনরায় দাবি করা

reassert in Kannada

ಪುನಃ ದೃಢಪಡಿಸು, ಮತ್ತೆ ಖಂಡಿತವಾಗಿ ಹೇಳು

Examples of reassert in a sentence

  • I had a brain-cramp there for a minute, the smile said, but now sanity has reasserted itself.
  • After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself.
  • But for Esquires trend-mad, jazz-digging editor Harold Hayes, the prevailing disillusion was more fun than a second martini—matoor' values reasserting themselves.

All 10 example sentences with reassert

Forms of reassert

third-person singular presentreasserts
present participlereasserting
past participlereasserted
pastreasserted

Past tense of reassert: reasserted

Origin of reassert

From re- + assert.

Words formed from reassert

Words that rhyme with reassert

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Questions about reassert

What does reassert mean?
Reassert means to assert again.
What is reassert in Bengali?
Reassert in Bengali is পুনরায় দাবি করা. See Reassert meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is reassert?
Reassert is a verb.
How do you pronounce reassert?
Reassert is pronounced /ˌɹiː.əˈsɜːt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of reassert?
The past tense of reassert is reasserted.

Words near reassert in the dictionary

  1. reassembly
  2. reassent
  3. reassented
  4. reassenting
  5. reassents
  6. reassert
  7. reasserted
  8. reasserting
  9. reassertion
  10. reassertions
  11. reassertor

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