REGAINING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regaining mean? 

• REGAINING (noun)
  The noun REGAINING has 1 sense:

1. getting something back again

  Familiarity information: REGAINING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGAINING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Getting something back again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

regaining; restitution; restoration; return

Context example:

upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing

Hypernyms ("regaining" is a kind of...):

acquisition (the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regaining"):

clawback (finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

There is no other possible way of regaining these letters.

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

There was comfort also in Tom, who gradually regained his health, without regaining the thoughtlessness and selfishness of his previous habits.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I had been so confident of regaining the treaty at once that I had not dared to think of what would be the consequence if I failed to do so.

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

I tottered, and on regaining my equilibrium retired back a step or two from his chair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A quick effort brought his hands up to the halyards again; but he was a long time regaining his former position, where he hung, a pitiable object.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He thrust her off with his shoulder, and, his retreat cut off and still intent on regaining the sled, he altered his course in an attempt to circle around to it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Regaining my room, I threw myself panting upon the bed and tried to think....

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He, without a moment’s warning, was bundled out of his room, and from that time onward there were always at least two of you there to prevent him from regaining his treasure.

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