remake
to make again or anew.
Movies. to film again, as a picture or screenplay.
Movies. a more recent version of an older film.
anything that has been remade, renovated, or rebuilt: The tailor is offering a special price on remakes.
Origin of remake
1Other words from remake
- re·mak·er, noun
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How to use remake in a sentence
He could be remade into a defender of the environment, a preserver of habitats and champion of rainforest ecology.
Can Tarzan of the Apes Survive in a Post-Colonial World? | Ted Gioia | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Game Boy Advance saw four different Mario games remade with the Super Mario Advance series.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, considered by some to be the best game of all time, was remade for the 3DS in 2011.
So it's a good thing, I suppose, that Lifetime has now stepped in and remade Flowers in the Attic for television.
Lifetime’s ‘Flowers in the Attic’ Review: The Incest Is There, The Strange Magic Is Not | Andrew Romano | January 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOr maybe it's a kind of remade readymade, and gets its power from using Disney as "serious" contemporary art.
The girl leaned over and remade my monastic white cot, giving the pillow a final pat to smooth it.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonHer husband might have developed powers of eloquence, but would have to be remade to talk in that fashion of any land.
The Art of Disappearing | John Talbot SmithWith the courteous help of one of the deskmen, she remade the front page of the noon edition.
Ghost Beyond the Gate | Mildred A. WirtWhistler remade his brushes, heating them over a candle, melting the glue and pushing the hair into the shape he wanted.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler | Elizabeth Robins PennellHe had not looked at it for over eighteen years, not since he remade his Will when his father died and Fleur was born.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. | John Galsworthy
British Dictionary definitions for remake
something that is made again, esp a new version of an old film
the act of making again or anew
(tr) to make again or anew
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