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regainment

regainment noun: an instance of regaining.

Noun

regainment (countable and uncountable, plural regainments)

  1. An instance of regaining.
    • Nature at the very commencement of all treatment should be aided as much as possible in the regainment of her full complement of energy.1880, Orange Scott Runnels, Runnels: Pamphlets, page 20
    • As indexed by the session at which full regainment of orientation occurred, however, our results did not reveal any correlations between age and session of regainment of full reorientation that even approached statistical significance at either treatment (p > 0.40).1986, R. John Leigh, Sidney Malitz, Harold A. Sackeim, Electroconvulsive Therapy: Clinical and Basic Research Issues, →ISBN

Forms of regainment

pluralregainments

Origin of regainment

From regain + -ment.

Questions about regainment

What does regainment mean?
Regainment means an instance of regaining.
What part of speech is regainment?
Regainment is a noun.
What is the plural of regainment?
The plural of regainment is regainments.

Words near regainment in the dictionary

  1. regainest
  2. regaineth
  3. regaining
  4. regaining one's senses
  5. regainings
  6. regainment
  7. regainments
  8. regains
  9. regains one's senses
  10. regal
  11. regal fritillaries

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