redesign
Britishverb
noun
Explanation
To change the way something looks or functions is to redesign it. If you use a wheelchair, you might need to redesign your new apartment to make it easier to get around. An architect might redesign a school building so it meets the current codes for being accessible — adding elevators, ramps, and new bathrooms, for example. Or you might redesign your dorm room, simply by moving the furniture around and attaching a disco ball to the ceiling. Clothing designers, in turn, sometimes redesign old favorites, like when they redesign jeans so they have a higher waist or a slimmer fit.
Example Sentences
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In turn, young parishioners volunteer, help with logistics, redesign things.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
If it’s not the ballroom redesign, he’s pretty over it.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
So when Smee and his husband, Ryan Tish, bought a 1925 French-style home in the Rossmoyne Historic District, he knew he wanted to redesign the traditional front yard.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
"Implementing stage 2 HAI-Scribe at the design stage would have reduced overall project costs by preventing redesign and remedial works," it found.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
Should we not then be willing to explore vigorously, in every nation, major changes in the traditional ways of doing things, a fundamental redesign of economic, political, social and religious institutions?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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