regaining

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

regaining

  1. present participle and gerund of regain

Noun[edit]

regaining (plural regainings)

  1. The act by which something is regained.
    • 1842, The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, page 339:
      We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only.
    • 1926, Samuel Kleinberg, Scoliosis: Rotary Lateral Curvature of the Spine, page 194:
      The left knee is placed as far back and as near the median line as possible; the spine is strongly bent to the right. The creeping consists of forward locomotion by a series of reversals and regainings of the position described.