recondition

[ ree-kuhn-dish-uhn ]
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verb (used with object)
  1. to restore to a good or satisfactory condition; repair; make over.

Origin of recondition

1
First recorded in 1915–20; re- + condition

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How to use recondition in a sentence

  • In the self-evolving life of the place there has been a strong trend toward associated life, which has reconditioned everything.

    Revisiting the Earth | James Langdon Hill
  • Destroyed by revolutionaries, its chapel and storage areas are roofless, but the residential rooms have been reconditioned.

    The Haciendas of Mexico | Paul Alexander Bartlett
  • During the transport of the Russian apparatus to India, the knives became rusted and the apparatus had to be reconditioned.

  • Instincts and with them emotion and imagination which largely fills the vast realm between instinct and reason are reconditioned.

    Catastrophe and Social Change | Samuel Henry Prince

British Dictionary definitions for recondition

recondition

/ (ˌriːkənˈdɪʃən) /


verb
  1. (tr) to restore to good condition or working order: to recondition an engine

Derived forms of recondition

  • reconditioned, adjective

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