Reassert

Definition: Reassert

Reassert

Verb

1. Strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reassert" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Synonym: Reassert

Affirmation

Swear by; (believe); insist upon, take one's stand upon; emphasize, lay stress on; assert roundly, assert positively; lay down, lay down the law; raise one's voice, dogmatize, have the last word; rap out; repeat; reassert, reaffirm.

Books

• American Militarism, 1970: A Dialogue on the Distortion of Our National Priorities and the Need to Reassert Control over the Defense Establishment. (reference)

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Economic History

Sierra Leone

As disarmament has progressed, the government has begun to reassert its authority in formerly rebel-held areas. (references)

Zimbabwe

On December 12, British Governor Lord Christopher Soames arrived in Salisbury to reassert British authority over the colony. (references)

Cambodia

By the end of this decade, Khmer nationalism began to reassert itself against the traditional Vietnamese enemy.In 1986, Hanoi claimed to have begun withdrawing part of its occupation forces. (references)

Political Economy

Lebanon

Lebanon, Israel and Syria accepted the UN verification, and in August, the Government of Lebanon deployed an initial contingent of 1000 Army and civilian law enforcement officials to reassert central authority in the areas evacuated by Israel. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

rishpall, pohoj (admit, affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, bear out, claim, confirm, have, maintain, predicate, protest). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرض منجديد, ‏أكد مجددا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

заявявам отново. (various references)

Chinese 

再宣称. (various references)

French

réaffirmer (reaffirm), s'imposer de nouveau. (various references)

German

wieder behaupten (to reassert). (various references)

Greek 

βεβαιώ πάλι (reaffirm). (various references)

Hungarian

újra megerõsít (reaffirm). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

振り�"す (to reassert, to relapse). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふりかえす (to reassert, to relapse). (various references)

Manx

aahickyraghey (reassertion). (various references)

Pig Latin

eassertray

Portuguese

reafirmar (reaffirm, reassure), voltar a afirmar. (various references)

Romanian

reafirma (reaffirm, restate). (various references)

Russian 

подтверждать (acknowledge, acknowledge by, affirm, attest, bear out, confirm, corroborate, corroboratory, endorse, indorse, instantiate, prove out, reaffirm, re-affirm, verify, vouch, warrant, write to acknowledge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ponovo tvrditi. (various references)

Spanish

reiterar (follow up, reaffirm, reiterate, repeat, restate), reafirmar (reaffirm, renew, restate). (various references)

Swedish

bekräfta (acknowledge, affirm, attest to, attested, bear out, confirm, corroborate, endorse, ratify, seal, substantiate, validate, vouch). (various references)

Turkish

yeniden ileri sürmek, tekrar savunmak, tekrar otorite kullanmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

знову висувати, підтверджувати (acknowledge, affirm, approve, attest, avouch, avow, bear out, carry, certify, confirm, corroborate, endorse, homologate, indorse, justify, reconfirm, say yes, uphold, verify, vouch). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "reassert": reasserted, reasserting, reassertion, reassertions, reasserts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Reassert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deassert, gesserit, reasent, Reaser, reasort, reassort, resser, Reussir. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: asserter, serrates, terrases.

-1 letter: arrests, easters, erasers, rasters, reseats, resters, retears, searest, seaters, serrate, starers, tearers, teasers, tessera.

-2 letters: aretes, arrest, assert, asters, easter, eaters, eraser, erases, esters, rarest, rasers, raster, raters, reests, reseat, resets, rester, retear, sarees, searer, seater, serest, starer, stares, steers, steres, tarres, tearer, teaser, teases, terrae, terras, terser.

-3 letters: arete, arses, asset, aster, eases, easts, eater, erase, erses, ester, rares, raser, rases, rater, rates, rears, reest, reset, rests, saree, sates, sears, seats, seers, serer, seres, setae, stare, stars, steer, stere, tares, tarre, tasse, tears, tease, terra, terse, trass, trees, tress, tsars.

-4 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, eses, etas, rare, rase, rate, rats, rear, rees, rest, rete, rets, sate, sear, seas, seat, seer, sees, sera, sere, sers, seta, sets, star, tare, tars, tass, tear, teas, tees, tree, tsar.

-5 letters: are, ars, art, ass, ate, ear, eat, era, ere, err, ers, ess, eta, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, tee.

+1 letter: arrestees, arresters, asserters, rearrests, reasserts, remasters, streakers, streamers, traverses, treasures.

+2 letters: careerists, earthrises, easterners, estrangers, harvesters, oratresses, overassert, plasterers, reasserted, reassorted, redbreasts, replasters, saunterers, scatterers, smatterers, staggerers, stammerers, streetcars, transverse, traversers, treasurers, treasuries, trespasser, watercress.

+3 letters: advertisers, arrestments, arteritises, arthrodeses, chartreuses, desecraters, desecrators, forecasters, freshwaters, lusterwares, natriureses, overasserts, overmasters, partnerless, preharvests, prestorages, reafforests, reasserting, reassertion, researchist, restrainers, retransfers, secretaries, shearwaters, stereograms, stripteaser, sweetbriars, tetraspores, traitresses, transferase, transferees, transverses, trespassers, yesteryears.

+4 letters: astrometries, brainteasers, breakfasters, breaststroke, clearstories, deerstalkers, drysalteries, earthshakers, extrasensory, forestallers, literariness, mastersinger, masterstroke, northeasters, operatorless, orchestrates, overasserted, overharvests, pasteurizers, paternosters, perestroikas, perseverates, professorate, rathskellers, reassertions, remonstrates, researchists, resegregates, reservations, restoratives, retranslates, sabermetrics, sauerbratens, secretariats, semitrailers, slaughterers, steamrollers, steatorrheas, stereographs, stratosphere, strawberries, streamliners, stripteasers, subsecretary, superalterns, superheaters, supermarkets, supernatures, supertankers, sweaterdress, terrestrials, traitoresses, transceivers, transferases, transferrers, transgressed, transgresses, transpierces, transportees, transversely, watercourses, watercresses, whoremasters.

+5 letters: agroforesters, androsterones, arsenopyrites, breaststroker, breaststrokes, characterless, diastereomers, embarrassment, extraversions, horsefeathers, irritableness, mastersingers, masterstrokes, observatories, orchestraters, overasserting, overassertion, overassertive, oversaturates, prematureness, presbyterates, presbyterials, preservations, preservatives, professorates, professoriate, quarterstaves, reconsecrates, remonstrances, repristinates, restaurateurs, secretaryship, skateboarders, stenographers, stercoraceous, straighteners, stratospheres, streetwalkers, subterraneous, subtreasuries, supersaturate, temporariness, tergiversates, transferences, transgressive, transparences, treasurership, triceratopses, waterthrushes.

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