"re-enact" meaning in All languages combined

See re-enact on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: re-enacts [present, singular, third-person], re-enacting [participle, present], re-enacted [participle, past], re-enacted [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} re-enact (third-person singular simple present re-enacts, present participle re-enacting, simple past and past participle re-enacted)
  1. Alternative spelling of reenact Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: reenact
    Sense id: en-re-enact-en-verb-qpt5k3oJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "When it arrived, the train was headed by a \"K\" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.",
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          "ref": "2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
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