REFIT (refitted, refitting)

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Irregular inflected forms: refitted    , refitting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does refit mean? 

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

1. outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts)

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

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

1. fit out again

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

outfitting (the act of renovating and fitting out a ship)

• REFIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they refit    ... he / she / it refits   
Past simple: refitted   
Past participle: refitted   
-ing form: refitting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fit out again

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

equip; fit; fit out; outfit (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

 Context examples 

“Now that we have peace, I can lie up and refit until King George needs me again,” said he.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It may be that when we reach Para we shall stop to refit.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But where there are no obstacles to a union, as in the present case, where the connection is in every point desirable, delays are unnecessary: they will be married as soon as S— Place, which Sir Frederic gives up to them, can he refitted for their reception.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)