Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To restore to good condition, especially by repairing, renovating, or rebuilding.
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- verb To
restore to afunctional state, or to acondition resembling theoriginal .
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- verb bring into an improved condition
Etymologies
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Examples
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Marine trainers today say that it takes up to 6 months to "recondition" American kids from their soft lives.
Are you watching HBO's "John Adams"? Ann Althouse 2008
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On my blog at some point I am going to propose the use of the military to recondition some discipline and respect into young offenders along the lines of the ‘Bad Lads Army’ programme.
Think About Your Searching! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The microenterprise participants clean and recondition the shoes to sell locally.
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The microenterprise participants clean and recondition the shoes to sell locally.
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Josee Bowman , a dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet, and Jessie Lee , a retired Royal Danish Ballet dancer who has been the company's Pilates instructor for 15 years, are helping to rehabilitate severely wounded soldiers using Pilates—the fitness method developed by German Joseph Pilates in the 1920s to help recondition injured World War I veterans.
War Wounds and Tutus Natalia Rachlin 2011
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The exercise is gradually increased, to help recondition muscles that may have been weakened, and get people used to exercise.
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We the Muslims unequivocally condemn abuse of the phrase Allahu Akbar and call on the imams and the scholars to recondition appropriate use of the phrase.
Mike Ghouse: Allahu Akbar Is Abused Mike Ghouse 2011
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In 1961, employees of the company produced the first truckload shipment of WD-40 to send off to the Gulf Coast to help recondition vehicles damaged by the flooding caused by Hurricane Carla.
The saga of WD-40 ewillett 2009
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We the Muslims unequivocally condemn abuse of the phrase Allahu Akbar and call on the imams and the scholars to recondition appropriate use of the phrase.
Mike Ghouse: Allahu Akbar Is Abused Mike Ghouse 2011
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A sustainable building firm in Missouri will collect corks to recondition into building materials: Since 2004, wine consumers have mailed in 1.5 tons of corks (approximately 400,000).
Cork dork: Ten cool things to do with leftover wine corks | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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