re-enactverb [ T ]
also reenact uk/ˌriː.ɪˈnækt/us/ˌriː.ɪˈnækt/If you re-enact an event, you try to make it happen again in exactly the same way that it happened the first time, often as an entertainment or as a way to help people remember certain facts about an event:
Police officers re-enacted the crime in an attempt to get witnesses to come forward.
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Cinema & theatre: acting, rehearsing & performing
- act
- act sth out
- amateur theater
- enact
- entrance 1
- go on the stage idiom
- ham
- ham it up
- improvise
- live action
- offstage
- portray
- prompt
- repertory
- rest
- stage
- stage whisper
- stage-struck
- stretch
- variety
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