regaining
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]regaining
- present participle and gerund of regain
Noun
[edit]regaining (plural regainings)
- The act by which something is regained.
- 1842, The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, page 339:
- We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only.
- 1926, Samuel Kleinberg, Scoliosis: Rotary Lateral Curvature of the Spine, page 194:
- The left knee is placed as far back and as near the median line as possible; the spine is strongly bent to the right. The creeping consists of forward locomotion by a series of reversals and regainings of the position described.