Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - reassert

(reasserts, reasserting, reasserted) 1. If you reassert your control or authority, you make it clear that you are still in a position of power, or you strengthen the power that you had. ...the government’s continuing effort to reassert its control in the region... VERB: V n 2. If something such as an idea or habit reasserts itself, it becomes noticeable again. His sense of humour was beginning to reassert itself. VERB: V pron-refl