Word Meanings - REGAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again. Syn. -- To recover; reobtain; repossess; retrieve.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REGAIN)
- Reclaim
- Reform
- recal
- recover
- regain
- rescue
- restore
- amend
- convert
- better
- Recover
- Regain
- repossess
- resume
- retrieve
- recruit
- heal
- cure
- revive
- reanimate
- save
- Redeem
- Repurchase
- make amends for
- recompense
- ransom
- liberate
- satisfy
- fulfil
- discharge
- Retrieve
- repair
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REGAIN)
Related words: (words related to REGAIN)
- AMENDFUL
Much improving. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - RECLAIMABLE
That may be reclaimed. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good. - REVIVEMENT
Revival. - CONVERTIBILITY
The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke. - EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - RECLAIMER
One who reclaims. - RESCUER
One who rescues. - RECRUITER
One who, or that which, recruits. - REDEEM
Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem - REVIVE
To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. (more info) 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into - EXPOSEDNESS
The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation. - RECOMPENSER
One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe. - CONVERTIBLY
In a convertible manner. - REPOSSESS
To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of , to acquire again . - BETRAYAL
The act or the result of betraying. - EXPOSE
1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them - RESTORE
Restoration. Spenser. - RECOVERANCE
Recovery. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - INCONVERTED
Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne. - UNREDEEMED
Not redeemed. - RECONVERTIBLE
Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition. - UNCONVERTED
1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter. - PREFORMATIVE
A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart. - PHASE CONVERTER
A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency. - INCONVERTIBLE
Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.