1 to get back sth you no longer have, especially an ability or a quality:
[VN] I struggled to regain some dignity. * The party has regained control of the region. * She paused on the edge, trying to regain her balance. * He did not regain consciousness (= wake up after being unconscious) for several days.
2 (literary) to get back to a place that you have left:
They finally managed to regain the beach.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for regain is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is regain a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, regain is tagged as verb.
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