re-enact

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See also: reenact and reënact

English

Verb

re-enact (third-person singular simple present re-enacts, present participle re-enacting, simple past and past participle re-enacted)

  1. 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.

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