Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To do over again.
- v. To redecorate: redo the walls in blue.
- n. An act or instance of doing something again.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To do over again.
- n. A trade-name for crystalline calcium hyposulphite (formerly called hydrosulphite), CaS2O4, used, along with calcium hydroxid, in sugar-refining.
Wiktionary
- v. To do again.
- n. A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- v. do over, as of (part of) a house
- v. make new
Etymologies
- re- + do (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Still have access panels to do, the bathroom stuff to redo from the inspection mixup, the handrail to install, and various other things.”
“An argument that could be made to Page is Coleman trying to have a redo is the same as the Minnesota Vikings wanting a redo of the play where Drew Pearson caught the winning touchdown from Roger Staubach in the final seconds of the 1975 divisional playoff game.”
“Definitely, a redo is the best possible solution, but I doubt that is at all likely.”
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“The redo was the work of designer Mark Bouwer, who also overhauled Lisa Marie Presley.”
“Up next, Senator Obama trying to move the debate over race away from his former pastor and his campaign and the Clinton and Obama campaigns battling over the so-called redo of the Michigan primary and how about Florida.”
“A redo, which is what they're talking about, is expensive, there are some legal barriers to it.”
“The redo is a novel idea, since it would give Bieber's rabid girl fan base a reason to go see the movie again.”
“The three actors previously linked to the redo are a who's who of comic talent gone sour, and there's no reason to think Cohen won't follow suit.”
“The site also supports undo and redo, which is a very nice feature for the user.”
“They were aiming for big redo, which is the reason the current OVI store hasn't really mproved for a while.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘redo’.
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Do That Again! ~~ "Re-verbs"
List of verbs that begin with re-, meaning to repeat a specific action or process - reappraise, for example.
I'm also looking for words like repeat, replenish and rescind whose roots d...repeat, rescind, reappraise, refinish, restripe, reapply, resupply, refurbish, reposition, reoffend, redistribute, recoat and 202 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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Ruby Reserved Words
alias, and, begin, break, case, class, def, defined?, do, else, elsif, end and 26 more...
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candyman's Words
bike, ninja, ammunition, cyclist, pie, pie, adventure, grove, star, tree, he, she and 36 more...
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