rebuild
verb (used with object)
to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts.
rebuilt
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past participleof rebuild.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof rebuild.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
rebuildverb (used with object)to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts.
Example Sentences
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Over about 10 years, it plans to add more than 500 miles of new lines, plus 1,100 miles of rebuilt or upgraded lines that can carry more electricity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Betsey Johnson has taken her newly rebuilt Hidden Hills, Calif., home off the market.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Officials also realized that Stations 33 and 37, known to require seismic retrofits, were actually in such bad shape that they needed to be torn down and rebuilt, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
This one is very real: a kind of Vision 2.0, rebuilt by the intelligence agency tasked with saving the New Jersey town Wanda took hostage to shore up her classic family sitcom simulation.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
They grumbled continually as they built and rebuilt with leathery, deliberate hands their pyramids of mottled greenish oranges and mangoes and curved embankments of hard green bananas.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
