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reassuming

reassuming is the present participle and gerund of reassume.

Meaning of reassume

Verb

reassume (third-person singular simple present reassumes, present participle reassuming, simple past and past participle reassumed)

  1. To resume, to carry on (a practice, thought, occupation etc.) again.
  2. To take on or adopt again.
    • The next day he reassumed his disguise.
  3. (archaic) To take back into one's possession.
    • What some lament of, we rather should rejoyce at, should rather praise this pious forwardnes among men, to reassume the ill deputed care of their Religion into their own hands again.1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

Questions about reassuming

What is reassuming the present participle and gerund of?
Reassuming is the present participle and gerund of reassume.

Words near reassuming in the dictionary

  1. reassorts
  2. reassume
  3. reassumed
  4. reassumes
  5. reassumeth
  6. reassuming
  7. reassumption
  8. reassumptions
  9. reassurable
  10. reassurance
  11. reassurances

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