to reenact

Examples

• All

• Read about it, watch films, reenact scenes, learn scripts.

  Anything Goes With James English

• Police detectives reenacted the situation at the crime scene with intelligence agent Temme.

  CompleX (2021)

• Imagine a play and you just reenact stuff that happened and has been happening.

• I want to reenact every scene from "9 1/2 Weeks."

  Carolina (2003)

• We will reenact that old, old game.

  The Kremlin Letter (1970)

• Hey, can we reenact that pose?

• The whole notion of Passover is that we reenact the story of the Exodus.

• In our family gatherings, the three of us often reenacted myths for the family.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Thus, a typical annual festival reenacts communal history while at the same time celebrating the chief gods.

  Academic text (1991)

• And for sixteen years, several times a week, Annie has reenacted this scene of love, loss, and longing.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

E

to enact

vsto reenact

27 4.8

To act out a scene in front of people, like in a play

recreates past events specifically rather than any acted scene

A

to act out

vsto reenact

24 3.7

To perform a scene or feeling like a short play

recreates past events specifically for teaching or entertainment

R

to reprise

vsto reenact

14 7.6

To perform a song or part again

focuses on acting out past events for education or entertainment

P

to play-act

vsto reenact

2 6.1

To act out a scene to practice or show how something happens

aims for faithful recreation of past events rather than casual pretending

R

to restage

vsto reenact

1 4.1

To put on a play or show again for an audience

focuses on acting out past events for education or entertainment

How Realistic

to reenact

22 4.4

to recreate

102 4.5

to act out

24 3.7

to dramatize

15 4.2

to pretend

∞ 2.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology