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obtain again
verb as in recover
Example Sentences
Reget, rē-get′, v.t. to get or obtain again.
These terms were low, lower than the Post Office was likely to obtain again; and the mail-coaches were running smoothly.
A modest situation in a chemical laboratory, which I should always be able to obtain again.
It was when I had least chance of winning him back, when I was removed from his sight, when he appeared to neglect me, when he might be supposed to have forgotten me, and he seemed no longer called upon to trouble himself with me, that he humbled his pride before my grandfather, to obtain again the child he had slighted.
The chief transitive use of recover is in the sense to obtain again after losing, regain, repossess, etc.; as, to recover stolen goods; to recover health.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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