regain
/ɹiːˈɡeɪn/ noun C2- 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.
Plural regains
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Their parties abroad were less varied than before; and at home she had a mother and sister, whose constant repinings at the dulness of everything around them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance, by a situation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.
Danglars is so skilful, he will soon regain at the Bourse what he loses elsewhere.”
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