Synonyms of reenacting

reenacting

verb

present participle of reenact

as in performing

to act out a past event; to enact again

The group reenacted a famous American Civil War battle.

Related Words

• performing
• executing
• prosecuting
• committing
• negotiating
• depicting
• recreating
• repeating
• doing
• representing
• accomplishing
• fulfilling
• perpetrating
• achieving
• carrying out
• making
• reprising
• reduplicating
• reinventing
• pulling off
• carrying off
• enacting
• replicating
• following through (with)
• remaking
• dramatizing
• duplicating
• putting through
• renewing
• bringing off
• reiterating
• compassing
• rendering
• redoing
• role-playing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of reenacting

But a few days later, on a brief holiday near Quebec, she was spotted reenacting the scene, pointing her home-movie camera at her husband and issuing orders in her version of an American accent. —Susan Page, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026

Each spoke about the weight of reenacting moments from a living person’s life; Yarris, now free, was a frequent presence at both table reads and performances. —Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2026

Barbie Ferreira stars as Margot, a content moderator who comes across some disturbing videos reenacting murders from the original Faces of Death. —Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026

Ever since Sydney had brought Victor back from the dead, his power had been glitching, his body reenacting the same electrical surge that had stopped his heart back at Lockland, fifteen years before. —Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026

Every year on the 10th of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar and the same day as the Battle of Karbala, Shiite Muslims inside and outside of Iran observe Ashura and commemorate the slaying of Hussain by reenacting his death and performing self-flagellation, among other rituals. —Eric Lob, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2026

Metcalf and Pullman are both wonderful in their shuffling ordinariness, reenacting long-obsolete parental dynamics with a kind of rueful, hopeful denial. —Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026

This year’s ceremony, by contrast, opened with a pair of dancers in angel wings reenacting the neoclassical sculpture Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, which was created about 100 years before the invention of the lightbulb. —Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2026

One component of the agreement barred the federal government, for at least eight years, from reenacting immigration policies that systematically separate children and parents. —Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026