REASSERT

confirm, reassert

(verb) strengthen or make more firm; “The witnesses confirmed the victim’s account”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

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

assert again

Anagrams

• asserter, rearsets, serrates, terrasse

Source: Wiktionary


Re`as*sert", v. t.

Definition: To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so. Let us hope . . . we may have a body of authors who will reassert our claim to respectability in literature. Walsh.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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