reassert

From re- + assert.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɹiː.əˈsɜːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɹi.əˈsɝt/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

reassert (third-person singular simple present reasserts, present participle reasserting, simple past and past participle reasserted)

1. To assert again.
   • 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     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 Malouda.

   • 2006, Nikki R. Keddie, Yann Richard, Modern Iran: roots and results of revolution, Yale University Press, page 120:

     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.

• reassertion

• Resetars, asserter, rearsets, serrates, terrasse