reattain

English

Etymology

re- + attain

Verb

reattain (third-person singular simple present reattains, present participle reattaining, simple past and past participle reattained)

  1. to attain again
    • 1962 August, Mercury, “The fastest trains on the Continent, 1962: II—Western Germany”, in Modern Railways, page 125:
      While the Deutsche Bundesbahn has not reattained the pre-eminence in European railway speed that the German railways enjoyed before the 1939-1945 war, speeds in that country are steadily moving upwards [...].

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