REBUILD (rebuilt)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: rebuilt   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rebuild mean? 

• REBUILD (verb)
  The verb REBUILD has 1 sense:

1. build again

  Familiarity information: REBUILD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REBUILD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rebuild    ... he / she / it rebuilds   
Past simple: rebuilt   
Past participle: rebuilt   
-ing form: rebuilding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Build again

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

rebuild; reconstruct

Context example:

The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb

Hypernyms (to "rebuild" is one way to...):

build; construct; make (make by combining materials and parts)

Domain category:

building; construction (the act of constructing something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The men rebuild the bookshelves

Derivation:

rebuilding (building again)

 Context examples 

They are living tissues that rebuild constantly throughout your life.

(Bone Diseases, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

It may be added to a person’s diet to help build strong bones, rebuild muscle and strength, and help the body heal after injury or surgery.

(Ensure, NCI Dictionary)

The doctors returned the stem cells to the participants to rebuild and reset their immune systems.

(Stem cell transplants may halt progression of multiple sclerosis, NIH)

High-dose chemotherapy is usually followed by bone marrow or stem cell transplantation to rebuild the bone marrow.

(High Dose Chemotherapy, NCI Dictionary)

Also, at the new moon on February 23, Saturn will be in an out-of-sign challenge (square) to Uranus, so a traditional structure is about to change and be rebuilt.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A good shop for the latter was in the Strand—somewhere in that part which has been rebuilt since.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Myeloablative chemotherapy is usually followed by a bone marrow or stem cell transplant to rebuild the bone marrow.

(Myeloablative chemotherapy, NCI Dictionary)

Surgery to rebuild the shape of the breast after a mastectomy.

(Breast Reconstruction, NCI Dictionary)

A type of surgery used to rebuild the shape of the breast after a mastectomy.

(Free flap, NCI Dictionary)

Surgeons use bone grafts to repair and rebuild diseased bones in your hips, knees, spine, and sometimes other bones and joints.

(Bone Grafts, NIH)