reassert

To assert again.

Verb

  1. To assert again.
    • Gareth Bale gave his side hope with a goal shortly afterwards but the real damage was done and Chelsea reasserted their authority to finish easy winners with further goals from Ramires, Frank Lampard and Florent...
    • They were tied to a revived religious class that took advantage of the end of anticlerical despotism to reassert Islamic views and practices and to regain some of their former sociopolitical status. - 2006, Nikki R....

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English assert English reassert From re- + assert.

Forms

reasserts reasserting reasserted

Derived

reassertion