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#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1943|month=November and December|author=G. T. Porter|title=The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma|journal=Railway Magazine|page=325|text=When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was '''re-enacted''' at each stop down the line.}} |
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#*{{RQ:Walliams Bad Dad|text=On Frank’s eleventh birthday, Dad bought his son a huge race-car set. The boy loved it. It was the best toy ever. Dad even painted one of the miniature Minis with a Union Jack so it looked just like Queenie. Together they would play with it late into the night, '''re-enacting''' Dad’s famous victories on the track.}} |
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Latest revision as of 12:17, 7 February 2024
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]re-enact (third-person singular simple present re-enacts, present participle re-enacting, simple past and past participle re-enacted)
- Alternative spelling of reenact
- 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:
- When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.
- 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
- On Frank’s eleventh birthday, Dad bought his son a huge race-car set. The boy loved it. It was the best toy ever. Dad even painted one of the miniature Minis with a Union Jack so it looked just like Queenie. Together they would play with it late into the night, re-enacting Dad’s famous victories on the track.