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Definition of "reenact" [re•ën•act]

  • To enact again: reenact a law. (verb-transitive)
  • To perform again: reenact the first two scenes. (verb-transitive)
  • To go through a second time: reenacted the events leading up to the accident. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "reenact" in a sentence
  • "How about America "reenact" the protests that crucified LBJ."
  • "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."
  • "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."