re-enact

present singular third person re-enacts · participle present re-enacting · participle past re-enacted · past re-enacted

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of reenact.

   A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.

   2007 February 20, Tina Kelley, “A Wet Wind Tunnel So Ships Can Move Faster and Better”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2022

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   When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.

   1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325

   On Frank’s eleventh birthday, Dad bought his son a huge race-car set. The boy loved it. It was the best toy ever. Dad even painted one of the miniature Minis with a Union Jack so it looked just like Queenie. Together they would play with it late into the night, re-enacting Dad’s famous victories on the track.

   2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

   Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did.

   2025 November 12, Tony Streeter, “All around the world”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 42