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US
/ˌɹiəˈsɝt/
]
[ UK /ɹˌiːɐsˈɜːt/ ]
[ UK /ɹˌiːɐsˈɜːt/ ]
VERB
-
strengthen or make more firm
The witnesses confirmed the victim's account
How To Use reassert In A Sentence
- Perhaps spurred by the era of Republican dominance and a reassertive ruling class, historians have given new attention to the plantocracy.
- The word has reasserted the romantic, courageous quality that the poet Keats, in “Endymion,” gave it: “Adventuresome, I send/My herald thought into a wilderness.” No Uncertain Terms
- It was an enjoyable evening but the danger of where we seem to be going kept reasserting itself like a descant to the pleasant sound of casual conversation.
- This ruinous legacy continues to reassert itself at each crucial turn of the country's history.
- In tandem with a reform of the modern Mass, already tentatively under way, the foundations could be laid for a return to dignified worship and reassertion of doctrine.
- Like the Islamic and Ottoman works that follow, they show how quickly this region surmounts destruction and reasserts its cultural traditions.
- He thought about giving up his job, but then common sense reasserted itself.
- It is a quick, single move which breaks the flow and reasserts one's control over the situation.
- What we are seeing from some reasserters is outward forms which are Anglican accompanied by an inward ecclessiology which is congregationalist. Who are the real Anglicans? « Anglican Samizdat
- Moreover, inflows of food have correlated with Pyongyang's crackdown on the fledgling markets and reinstitution of the government-run public distribution system as the regime uses food rations to reassert political control. Food For North Korea's Poor, but Not for Its Government