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  • verb Simple past of reweave.

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Examples

  • The pastiche author might be left feeling that the entire rug needs to be rewove to accommodate their story.

    Book #8...yet more Holmes 2010

  • The pastiche author might be left feeling that the entire rug needs to be rewove to accommodate their story.

    Book #8...yet more Holmes 2010

  • Jim gasped and reached for those stellar numerals and rewove them into a different shape.

    In Alien Hands Shatner, William 1997

  • Grabbing hold of saidin, he rewove the ward that shut Merana away from their voices.

    A Crown of Swords Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1996

  • She ran the protoplaser along his jawline, and he felt the usual tingle as the severed nerves were reknit and complained about it, as skin sealed over and the derma rewove itself.

    Dark Mirror Diane Duane 1993

  • One by one she rewove those threads, raising the platform thumblength by agonizing thumblength.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • By that I mean, we stretched the canvas out on an immense table and we rewove every missing fiber.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • Coloured rockets sailed upwards from the admiral when he changed his mind and his course, and then the city of mobile streets altered its plan, and rewove its constellation.

    London River 1915

  • With deft fingers she went over the somberly woven web of the hours, and plucking here a bright thread and there a bright thread, rewove these into a smaller picture, on which fell the day's far-separated sunbeams; the rays were condensed now and made a solid brightness.

    A Cathedral Singer James Lane Allen 1887

  • The aim of the book was to discover the only true and allowable and womanly sphere of feminine work, and, though the theme was threadbare, she fearlessly picked up the frayed woof and rewove it.

    St. Elmo 1872

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