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rebuilder

[ree-bild] Origin

re·build

[ree-bild] verb, -built or (Archaic) -build·ed; -build·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
2.
to replace, restrengthen, or reinforce: to rebuild an army.
3.
to revise, reshape, or reorganize: to rebuild a shattered career.
verb (used without object)
4.
to build again or afresh: With the insurance money we can rebuild.

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Rebuilder is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1605–15; re- + build

re·build·a·ble, adjective
re·build·a·bil·i·ty, noun
re·build·er, noun
un·re·built, adjective
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Word Origin & History

rebuild
1611, from re- "back, again" + build (q.v.).
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