0 past participle, past simple of re-enact
1 If you re-enact an event, you try to make it happen again in exactly the same way that it happened the first time, often as an entertainment or as a way to help people remember certain facts about an event:
Explorers were much read and talked about and their adventures were re-enacted in lecture halls, theatres, and in all manner of visual entertainments.
By means of this fake homage, the festival re-enacted the sixteenth-century conquest and switched the roles of the protagonists by way of theatrical compensation.
In addition, events are illustrated or re-enacted by other actors, which constitutes action replay.
These slices of life are re-enacted in front of the group and help us see the actual meaning of the intellectual ideas behind the play.
Similarly, the retired academics re-enacted their role through enthusiastic participation in the activities that accompanied guest lectures.
In their presence a state spectacle performed on the empire's frontiers was re-enacted in an intimate interaction with the making of social memory.
This image of immortality and continuity gets re-enacted on the plane of his lyrics.
It is enacted and re-enacted every time one has to relate to someone else.
