rework

[verb ree-wurk; noun ree-wurk]

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verb (used with object), re·worked or re·wrought, re·work·ing.

to work or form again: to rework gold.

to revise or rewrite: to rework an essay.

to process again or anew for reuse: to rework wool.

noun

an act or instance of reworking: His latest book is merely a rework of his earlier novel.

Origin of rework

First recorded in 1835–45; re- + work

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Related Words for rework

rewrite, edit, modify, revamp, adapt, alter, revise, reshape, redraw, emend, redraft

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Historical Examples of rework

So, to keep myself from going batty, I started to rework the business of who had done what to the Maintainer.
The Big Time
Fritz Reuter Leiber
He therefore decided to rework his material and to illustrate his publications with enlarged photographs.
The Appendages, Anatomy, and Relationships of Trilobites
Percy Edward Raymond

British Dictionary definitions for rework

rework

verb (tr)

to use again in altered formthe theme has been reworked in countless well-known poems

to rewrite or revise

to reprocess for use again

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Word Origin and History for rework

1842, from re- + work (v.). Related: Reworked; reworking.