re-lay
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of re-lay
Example Sentences
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The club said the process will result in "positive improvements", but also admitted the need to re-lay the square.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
If it’s fixing the surface we’ll re-lay it, if it’s new we build from the foundations up.
From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2018
To re-create the feeling of the landscape, Woods must re-lay the bricks of every street—hence his indignation, when reviews of his translations praise the author’s prose as if it were not his as well.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2016
You learned to clean and re-lay the dirty, coal-heated, gas-fired boiler.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2014
"One doesn't re-lay a road by making a deep hole in it."
From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Hay, Ian
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