Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To enact again.
- transitive verb To perform again.
- transitive verb To act out or re-create dramatically (a historical event, for example).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To enact again, as a law.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To enact again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
enact again. - verb To
recreate anevent , especially a historical battle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb act out; represent or perform as if in a play
- verb enact or perform again
- verb enact again
Etymologies
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Examples
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How about America "reenact" the protests that crucified LBJ.
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As far as the comparison between explicit violence and explicit sex, if you look at both using one as a control point, you will see that most people will not be hacking anyone up, but the chances are much greater that a younger person may attempt to "reenact" a sex scene.
A little help with sex and violence? Steven Barnes 2008
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And it was a really heavy night on set, because we knew that this was the night -- since we'd been so, you know, involved it just was -- we were going to kind of reenact and remember and stand in that place.
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And it was a really heavy night on set, because we knew that this was the night -- since we'd been so, you know, involved it just was -- we were going to kind of reenact and remember and stand in that place.
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HOWARD VARINSKY, JURY CONSULTANT: You know, first of all, all juries have to kind of reenact a scene.
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While it heated up, I went back to the bar and tried to reenact my alchemistic trick in a wine glass.
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Costumed residents reenact scenes from the Battle of Puebla, and smoke in the air comes from simulated musket fire.
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Naya Rivera, too, agrees to reenact her memorable "Blame It on the Alcohol" moment: "No me gusta!"
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Jamie Rector Karen Barker, a vice president of customer care, left, paraded around the office dressed up as a heart last week to reenact what she did on Valentine's Day 2011.
Cupid Year-Round 2012
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Also, when I started to reenact tallship battles the captain tried to explain manuevering and advantages and I already knew it all.
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