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reassert

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reassert
Verb
1. to state or declare again
2. reassert oneself to become significant or noticeable again: reality had reasserted itself
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Verb1.reassert - strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"
confirm
uphold, maintain - support against an opponent; "The appellate court upheld the verdict"
justify, warrant - show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means"
affirm - say yes to
verify - attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition)
corroborate, validate - give evidence for
reconfirm - confirm again; "You must reconfirm your flight reservations"
Translations
Spanish reassert [riːəˈsəːt] vt → reafirmar, reiterar
French reassert [riːəˈsəːt] vt → réaffirmer
German reassert [riːəˈsəːt] vt to reassert oneself/one's authority → seine Autorität wieder geltend machen
Italian reassert [riːəˈsəːt] vt → riaffermare
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Slowly and painfully, recollection was attempting to reassert itself, the hurt brain was mending, as the cause of its recent failure to function was being slowly absorbed or removed by the healing processes of perfect circulation.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
If you say that all this, too, can be calculated and tabulated--chaos and darkness and curses, so that the mere possibility of calculating it all beforehand would stop it all, and reason would reassert itself, then man would purposely go mad in order to be rid of reason and gain his point
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Casaubon, he heard her with an air of patience as if she had given a quotation from the Delectus familiar to him from his tender years, and sometimes mentioned curtly what ancient sects or personages had held similar ideas, as if there were too much of that sort in stock already; at other times he would inform her that she was mistaken, and reassert what her remark had questioned.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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