Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To build again.
- transitive verb To make extensive structural repairs on.
- transitive verb To remodel or make extensive changes in.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To build or build up again; build or construct after having been demolished; reconstruct or reconstitute: as, to
rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city; to rebuild one's credit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
build again . - noun An act of rebuilding.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb build again
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No instructions are supplied to tell the user whether rebuild is a command issued to the master or the blank mirror.
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Any image rebuild is like to be slow and cumbersome.
The state of Australian wine – and Landmark Australia | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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Ms. KILLION: No. The Giants pitching staff has really been they're trying to rebuild from the Barry Bonds years.
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•The big picture: This is a rebuild from the ground up.
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As previously reported, Mark Evanier is helping Len Wein rebuild his collection of his own work after losing it in a house fire a few weeks ago.
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Claims to have had his foot rebuild from the same landmine.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Ms. KILLION: No. The Giants pitching staff has really been they're trying to rebuild from the Barry Bonds years.
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As the White House releases a report on the devastating impacts of global warming to the United States today, Iowans are still struggling to rebuild from the extreme floods that ravaged their state one year ago.
Wonk Room » Global Boiling: One Year Later, Iowa Still Devastated By Extreme Floods 2009
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After the war, Des Gouttes went to great lengths to restore the international leadership of the World's Alliance as the Association attempted to rebuild from the devastation of the war.
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Which means McCain will feel enormous pressure tomorrow night to produce a game-changing moment, lest the trend become irreversible and Republicans start ruminating openly about how to rebuild from the ashes of an apocalyptic defeat.
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