Definition of regains Regains
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What does regains mean?
Part of speech
🔤- regains, verb, present, 3rd person singular of regain (infinitive).
WordNet
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| regain - come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" | ||
| find | ||
| lose fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" | ||
| acquire, get win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
| feel be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state; "My cold is gone--I feel fine today"; "She felt tired after the long hike"; "She felt sad after her loss" | ||
| locate, turn up discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" | ||
| chance on, chance upon, light upon, fall upon, happen upon, come upon, attain, come across, discover, strike find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" | ||
| rout up, rout out get or find by searching; "What did you rout out in the library?" | ||
| regain - get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" | ||
| recover, retrieve, find | ||
| acquire, get win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
| access reach or gain access to; "How does one access the attic in this house?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof" | ||
| regain, find come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- regain (Verb)
To get back ; to recover possession of.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- regain (v. t.)
To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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regain
rē-gān, v.t. to gain back or again: to recover
Part of speech
🔤- regain, verb, present, 1st person singular of regain (infinitive).
- regain, verb (infinitive).
