regain

Plural: regains

Verb

Verb Forms: regained, regaining, regains

• To get back something that was lost or taken.
• get or find back; recover the use of
  • "She regained control of herself"
• come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
• To get back; to recover possession of.

Noun

• The act or process of regaining something.
• The amount of width a woven cloth grows by when the fibers swell, used to determine the width of the reed to use in weaving.

Examples

• After a terrible opening, she hoped to regain control of the Words With Friends board with a strategic seven-letter word.

Synonyms

find, recover, retrieve, resume

Antonyms

lose

Anagrams of regain