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Princeton's WordNet

  1. confirm, reassertverb

    strengthen or make more firm

    "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"

Wiktionary

  1. reassertverb

    assert again

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Reassertverb

    To assert anew; to maintain after suspension or cessation.

    Etymology: re and assert.

    His steps I followed, his doctrine I reasserted. Francis Atterbury.

    Young Orestes grown
    To manly years should reassert the throne. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. reassert

    To reassert is to state or affirm something again firmly or with renewed conviction, particularly when it's being challenged or in doubt. It often involves restating something to strengthen its truth or validity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Reassertverb

    to assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Reassert

    rē-as-sert′, v.t. to assert again.—n. Reasser′tion.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of reassert in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of reassert in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of reassert in a Sentence

  1. Raja Krishnamoorthi:

    The question is are they going to be equipped and are we going to be able to aid them sufficiently to be able to reassert control eventually.

  2. Jung Gwang-il:

    Young North Koreans think they owe nothing to Kim Jong Un, he must reassert his ideological control on the young if he doesn’t want to lose the foundation for the future of his family’s dynastic rule.

  3. Andrew Selee:

    AMLO will try to reassert himself. He understands US has power. He flirts with pushing back rhetorically, but doesn’t go over the edge.

  4. Cyril Almeida:

    The state is awkwardly trying to reassert its primacy, but generations now of Pakistanis have been raised with the belief that their version of religion trumps everything else, the blasphemy law is almost incidental to the larger trend of a radicalized society that has slipped out of the control of a weak state.

  5. Jerry Nadler:

    The President says The President doesn't want people talking about certain things, but they have already talked about those things to Mueller and to others. So that means if there was any executive privilege it's been waived, you can not waive the privilege and then reassert it, so there is no legal excuse whatsoever... The only question is how long they will draw it out in court before the subpoena is followed, and how contemptuous of Congress this administration will be.

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