remake
Use Remake in a sentence
verb (used with object)
1.
to make again or anew.
2.
Movies. to film again, as a picture or screenplay.
noun
3.
Movies. a more recent version of an older film.
4.
anything that has been remade, renovated, or rebuilt: The tailor is offering a special price on remakes.
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| remake | |
| —n | |
| 1. | something that is made again, esp a new version of an old film |
| 2. | the act of making again or anew |
| —vb , -makes, -making, -made | |
| 3. | (tr) to make again or anew |
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Example sentences
In fact, they may remake electricity as well as transport.
By then the right-wingers were gone, and the intellectuals chose to remake the emptiness rather than abide with the many.
Each year new snags and shifting shoals remake the river channel.
Presidents don't get to remake society from first principles.
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