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regain
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regain \Re*gain"\ (r?*g?n"), v. t. [Pref. re- + gain: cf. F. regagner.] To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again. Syn: To recover; reobtain; repossess; retrieve.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES recover/regain your composure (= become calm after feeling angry or upset ) ▪ Carter looked stunned, but he soon regained his composure. regain control of ▪ The Conservatives are hoping to regain control of the city ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Middle French regaigner (Modern French regagner ), from re- "again" (see re- ) + gaginer , from Old French gaaignier (see gain (v.)). Related: Regained ; regaining .
Usage examples of regain.
He rested her back against the wall, his forehead pressed to hers, struggling to regain his ability to breathe.
Lily attempted to regain her ability to breathe, listening to the next song, a slow, moody number.
In offering a few hints for the domestic management of these abnormal conditions, we would at the same time remark, that, while health may be regained by skillful treatment, recovery will be gradual.
Containing Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and his poems on several occasions.
Frik Van Alman would be more upset about not regaining the artifact than he would ever have been about losing the oil rig.
Now, fierce, Sir Gui did curse the Fool amain, And, cursing, strove his dagger to regain.
Lars Aquavit, who had regained his cheerful equilibrium since that afternoon.
Kurt von Schuschnigg, quickly regained control, and the rebels, though promised safe-conduct to Germany through the intervention of the German minister, were arrested and thirteen of them later hanged.
I have accordingly ordered General Cunningham to attack with all available resources, regain Sidi Rezegh, and join hands with Tobruk garrison, which is to co-operate by attacking the enemy on its front.
Yet he could never quite find the right moment to tactfully assert his rights and take a place there in his bed beside his wife, and watching her slow movements about the house, he knew it would be some time yet before he could find relief for his baser needs with her, though he found her newly regained slimness most distracting.
Susan Bates merely laughed, feeling that she had regained the upperhand.
He also knew that if he eased up on the pressure, Batt might regain his nerve and become defiant.
As the only one of the arrivals with a sound footing on land, bn Bem rushed into the water to aid the struggling Kirk and Spock in regaining their footing.
When, on their return journey, they had regained the summit of the Armboth Fell, and were about to descend past Blea Tarn towards Wythburn, they stood for a moment at that highest point and took a last glimpse of the mournful little company, with the one riderless horse in front, that wended its way slowly beyond Rosthwaite, along the banks of the winding Derwent, which looked to them now like a thin streak of blue in the deep valley below.
During the third round of bleachers, he collapsed between the third and fourth rows on the home side, and never regained consciousness.