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▪ I. reˈdo, v.
Also re-do.
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To do over again or afresh.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 15/2 Redoinge the same soe often as the greatnes of the wounde shall require. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 262 Prodigality and luxurie are no new crimes, and..we do but re-do old vices. 1680J. Aubrey in Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) III. 555 'Tis pitty it is not re-donne. 1837C. Lofft Self-formation I. 131 This we must do, and redo, and as nearly as we can overdo. 1892Daily News 2 Aug. 6/1 The boots must either be redone, or he would not pay.
b. To redecorate (a room).
1864Trollope Can you forgive her? ii, I'll go halves with you in the expense of redoing it. 1895Blackw. Mag. Feb. 36/2 My father redid the interior of the East room.
c. To do up again.
1845Economy 48 It is to be patched..and re-done up.
†2. To do back or in return. Obs.—1
1650Lockyer Olive-Leafe 73 What evil men doe to good shall be re-done to them, done back again upon them.
▪ II. ˈredo, n.
Also re-do.
[f. the vb.]
A doing over again (in various senses); a repetition.
a1953Dylan Thomas Quite Early One Morning (1954) 79 The decorators were in at the mortuary, giving the old home a bit of re-do like. 1961D. B. Shields in Webster s.v., No pleasanter prospect than a redo of our South American trek. 1977Surgery LXXXI. 41 (heading) ‘Redo’ surgery after operations for aneurysm and occlusion of the abdominal aorta. |