MEANING
1. To state a claim or position firmly again, especially after it has been challenged.
2. To establish authority, control, or a right firmly again after it has weakened or been challenged.
3. To begin having an effect again after a period of reduced influence.
Use it for
restating a disputed claim with renewed confidence; maintaining a position after criticism; renewing an argument without implying new evidenceDistinguishes renewing a contested claim from stating it for the first time, and renewed influence from uninterrupted influence. Academic functions: Argumentation, Change / Pattern / Trend.
Words that belong together
- reassert a claim
- reassert the principle that
- reassert a commitment to
On the page
The historian reasserts that taxation, rather than religious conflict, drove the rebellion.
After addressing the objections, the article reasserts its central claim about institutional trust.
The reform allowed local councils to reassert control over housing policy.
The court reasserted its authority to review emergency legislation.
As subsidies declined, market pressures reasserted themselves.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- reassert
- Past tense
- reasserted
- Past participle
- reasserted
- Present participle
- reasserting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- reassert
- Present continuous
- am/is/are reasserting
- Present perfect
- have/has reasserted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been reasserting
- Past
- reasserted
- Past continuous
- was/were reasserting
- Past perfect
- had reasserted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been reasserting
- Future
- will reassert
- Future continuous
- will be reasserting
- Future perfect
- will have reasserted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been reasserting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Transitive. Third-person singular reasserts; simple past and past participle reasserted; present participle reasserting. In sense 3, use reassert itself/themselves. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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