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rebuild, v.|riːˈbɪld| [re- 5 a.] a. trans. To build again; to reconstruct.
1611Cotgr., Rebastir, to reedifie, rebuild. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. viii. 159 In whose..name Great London still shall live, (by him rebuilded). 1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint., Ascension Hymn vii, Hee alone..can Bring bone to bone And rebuild man. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 1 The Ships were all in prime Order, all lately rebuilt. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 163 We have rebuilt Newgate, and tenanted the mansion. 1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1875) I. 423 When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. I. xii. 458 Farmhouses and palaces had alike been re⁓built. 1927Scribner's Mag. Apr. 356/1 Another boy..wore a black silk handkerchief across his face because he had no nose then and his face was to be rebuilt... They rebuilt his face, but..they could never get the nose exactly straight. 1961M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) ii. 19 The fire..had gone out... While George rebuilt it, I set about frying bacon and eggs. absol.1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 88 Where a remainder-man..suffers the lessee or assignee to rebuild. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 44 When the Company proceeded to rebuild, they no longer did so in the massive and imposing style of the fourteenth century. b. rebuilding = being rebuilt. Cf. build v. 7.
1668H. Duke Londons-Nonsuch title-p., That most stately and magnificent structure now re-building. 1745Observ. Conc. Navy 33 She is re-building. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 30 The Bridge at that Time rebuilding at Orleans. Hence ˈrebuild n., an operation of rebuilding, a thing rebuilt; reˈbuilded ppl. a. (poet.); reˈbuilt ppl. a.
1692Lond. Gaz. No. 2761/3 Two rebuilt Ships, the Prince,..and the Dunkirk. 1856P. Fairbairn Prophecy ii. ii. 268 A restoration to the Land of Canaan, and a rebuilt Jerusalem. 1878F. S. Williams Midl. Railw. 646 We enter the erecting shops,..one for ‘rebuilds’, renewals, and new engines. 1924R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin iii. 48 Sodom, rebuilded, scorns the wilting power. 1934Webster, Rebuilt.., of factory products, as typewriters, disassembled, reconstructed with new parts replacing those that are worn, and refinished. 1959J. Thurber Years with Ross vii. 124 A rebuilt typewriter I had been using. 1960K. M. Kenyon Archæol. in Holy Land iv. 106 Sometimes the collapsed wall survived in the shape of an inverted U, and the rebuild consisted of a capping which might have foundations on the same level as the original wall. 1972World of Wild Wheels (Custom Car) 10/1 As the moulding drops off they tend to leave it off. It's less work in the re-build. 1973Country Life 1 Mar. (Suppl.) 11 Modern house being a rebuild of the original manor house. 1976Evening Post (Bristol) 23 Apr. (Advt.), Bodywork, resprays, engine re-build, reasonable prices. 1978Gramophone July 173/3 The Canterbury organ was ailing and unfit (in fact a rebuild is about to begin). |