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REBUILD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: rebuilt   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Build again

Example:

The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb

Synonyms:

rebuild; reconstruct

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

If you need a mastectomy, you have a choice about whether or not to have surgery to rebuild the shape of the breast.

(Breast Reconstruction, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

After a patient’s bone marrow is destroyed by treatment with whole body irradiation or chemotherapy, these cells are injected back into the patient to help rebuild bone marrow.

(autologous expanded mesenchymal stem cells OTI-010, NCI Dictionary)

However, if the re-injury occurred after a few days, once the wound healing phase had already begun, there was no effect on the meningeal repair process and blood vessels were rebuilt normally.

(Scientists watch the brain’s lining heal after a head injury, National Institutes of Health)

This portion was rebuilt A.D. —, by Naomi Brocklehurst, of Brocklehurst Hall, in this county.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I gave due praises to every thing I saw, whereof his excellency took not the least notice till after supper; when, there being no third companion, he told me with a very melancholy air that he doubted he must throw down his houses in town and country, to rebuild them after the present mode; destroy all his plantations, and cast others into such a form as modern usage required, and give the same directions to all his tenants, unless he would submit to incur the censure of pride, singularity, affectation, ignorance, caprice, and perhaps increase his majesty’s displeasure; that the admiration I appeared to be under would cease or diminish, when he had informed me of some particulars which, probably, I never heard of at court, the people there being too much taken up in their own speculations, to have regard to what passed here below.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

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)

Restriction is like a demolition where you take the building down. But you have to rebuild it. If you don’t do that, there’s no benefit. You are left with an empty lot, and what have you achieved?

(Fasting-Like Diets May Reverse Gut Inflammation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These cells were assisted a few days later by a different type of blood monocyte that worked around the lesion edge to help rebuild damaged blood vessels, which were completely restored and fully functional within a week.

(Scientists watch the brain’s lining heal after a head injury, National Institutes of Health)

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)