Reenact

//ɹi.ɪnækt// verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To enact again.
  2. 2
    act out; represent or perform as if in a play wordnet
  3. 3
    To recreate an event, especially a historical battle.
  4. 4
    enact or perform again wordnet
  5. 5
    enact again wordnet

Example

More examples

"The echo of the American Civil War still resonates in the United States, and especially in a small Pennsylvania town where one of the war’s most significant battles took place. Each year people descend on Gettysburg to remember and reenact that turbulent in time in American history."

Etymology

From re- + enact.

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