From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishre-enactre-enact /ˌriː ɪˈnækt/ verb [transitive] to perform the actions of a story, crime etc that happened in the past At the church, children re-enacted the Christmas story. —re-enactment noun [countable] a re-enactment of the crime→ See Verb table
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re-enact• This acting can range from pairs of students re-enacting a dialogue through to a simulation involving the whole class.• Only a fool would re-enact the drink-fuelled high speed car journey that killed Princess Diana.• So then Hans Spemann sought to re-enact the principle that Loeb had demonstrated, this time with his favourite salamander embryos. 