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reprising

reprising is the present participle and gerund of reprise.

Meaning of reprise

Verb

reprise (third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
    • How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. To repeat or resume an action or a role.
    • The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.
    Synonyms:
    repeat
  3. (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.
    Synonyms:
    compensate

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Questions about reprising

What is reprising the present participle and gerund of?
Reprising is the present participle and gerund of reprise.

Words near reprising in the dictionary

  1. reprisal
  2. reprisals
  3. reprise
  4. reprised
  5. reprises
  6. reprising
  7. repristinate
  8. repristinated
  9. repristinates
  10. repristinating
  11. repristination

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