REGAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regain mean? 

• REGAIN (verb)
  The verb REGAIN has 2 senses:

1. get or find back; recover the use of

2. come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost

  Familiarity information: REGAIN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGAIN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they regain    ... he / she / it regains   
Past simple: regained   
Past participle: regained   
-ing form: regaining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get or find back; recover the use of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

find; recover; regain; retrieve

Context example:

She found her voice and replied quickly

Hypernyms (to "regain" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Verb group:

find; regain (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regain"):

access (obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

regaining (getting something back again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

find; regain

Context example:

I cannot find my gloves!

Hypernyms (to "regain" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Verb group:

find (obtain through effort or management)

find; recover; regain; retrieve (get or find back; recover the use of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regain"):

feel (find by testing or cautious exploration)

locate; turn up (discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining)

attain; chance on; chance upon; come across; come upon; discover; fall upon; happen upon; light upon; strike (find unexpectedly)

rout out; rout up (get or find by searching)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They regain the money in the closet

 Context examples 

It may be that something unexpected happens to temporarily shock you, and you’ll need to regain your balance and quickly think of a solution.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Treated mice partially regained visual function.

(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)

A finding referring to a medical device that is no longer held or possessed; incapable of being recovered or regained.

(Lost Medical Device, NCI Thesaurus)

The third pattern helped predict those who would regain emotional and behavioral control to stress.

(Researchers identify brain circuits that help people cope with stress, NIH)

She never regained them, This was what the onlooking huskies had waited for.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Beauty Smith had regained his feet and come over to look at White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The patients who received auto-FMT consistently regained bacterial diversity, composition and function; recovery of beneficial bacteria in the 11 control patients was delayed.

(Fecal microbiota transplantation helps restore beneficial bacteria in cancer patients, National Institutes of Health)

I must study to regain my former self.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There is no other possible way of regaining these letters.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)