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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"We used software developed by Nobel Prize winner David Baker and his group to redesign our antibody fragments, so they had the right charge and are super stable."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
It comes as the party prepares to publish its 50-page plan on Monday for what Jenrick described as the "most comprehensive redesign of the welfare system's machinery in a generation".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
While the redesign had been in the works for several years, some small-business leaders complain they were left out of the planning process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
That premise doesn’t come with a carve-out for whichever branch of government happens to be asking for the redesign.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 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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