weave
verb (used with object)
to interlace (threads, yarns, strips, fibrous material, etc.) so as to form a fabric or material.
reweave
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a word derived from
weave.
Example Sentences
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Myra's goal is patently delusional — how do you reweave the fabric of society from a failing theater school outside Hollywood?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2018
Herbert Van de Sompel, a Belgian computer scientist who works at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is trying to reweave the fabric of the Web.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2015
There have to be programs that encourage local paternalism: early education programs with wraparound services to reinforce parenting skills, social entrepreneurship funds to reweave community, paternalistic welfare rules to encourage work.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2014
“It’s very, very difficult to reweave older characters back into the culture, but I’m glad that Warner is at least not giving up on these guys.”
From New York Times ● May 19, 2010
Give me a little space and time enough, From ravelings rough I could revive, reweave, A fabric of beauty art might well believe Were past retrieve.
From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Thomas Buford Meteyard
