REBUILDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rebuilding mean? 

• REBUILDING (noun)
  The noun REBUILDING has 1 sense:

1. building again

  Familiarity information: REBUILDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REBUILDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Building again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("rebuilding" is a kind of...):

reconstruction (the activity of constructing something again)

Derivation:

rebuild (build again)

 Context examples 

There are many kinds of bone problems: • Low bone density and osteoporosis, which make your bones weak and more likely to break • Osteogenesis imperfecta makes your bones brittle • Paget's disease of bone makes them weak • Bone disease can make bones easy to break • Bones can also develop cancer and infections • Other bone diseases are caused by poor nutrition, genetic factors or problems with the rate of bone growth or rebuilding

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

It is a promising technique for management on a local basis but needs to be combined with habitat restoration and other conservation measures; rebuilding fish communities with the help of playbacks might accelerate ecosystem recovery but is not enough alone.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)