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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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
The redesign will reshape how visitors experience the campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
"The packaging industry has existing machines which are all designed for glue materials. Some kind of redesign is probably necessary, and this is our biggest challenge," says Hermann Ultraschall's Baumann.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Although long-term agreements from memory companies and a redesign of AI chips to address memory constraints “could flatten the amplitude of the cycle,” Moore said those factors should increase the duration of the memory boom.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
During this period of redesign, researchers faced an additional and even bigger setback.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
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