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REGAINING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing
Synonyms:
regaining; restitution; restoration; return
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb regain