(v. t.) To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is that beautiful moment when the original Metamorphosis is destroyed so that it can be refashioned for a global community of readers in dire need of new forms of storytelling.
(2) Failure was defined as the necessity for further surgery, either refashioning of the anastomosis or nephrectomy.
(3) With the death toll across Guinea , Liberia and Sierra Leone topping 5,000 this month, everything from equipment to medical trials to psychology handbooks is being tested, upgraded and refashioned.
(4) The details of technique of lengthening and refashioning of the residual phallic stump after partial amputation in a further 20 patients is described using a technique which leaves a satisfactory penile stump in patients who would normally be candidates for a total amputation.
(5) The author foresees that these developments may undercut the reasoning of earlier court decisions, have psychological effects leading to a refashioning of moral views, and produce a social trend away from concern with the public health benefits of abortion to the clash between fetal and women's rights.
(6) Devolution, a refashioned welfare state and stronger local institutions to bind a fractured society together all feature.
(7) Two ends of the refashioned rib were anchored to masseteric muscle mass and zygoma.
(8) The author and journalist Robert Winder detailed in his book Bloody Foreigners how Charles Dickens, in creating the character of Fagin for Oliver Twist , refashioned a real social problem.
(9) An opportunity to begin to refashion the EU so it better serves this nation's interests and the interests of its other 26 nations too.
(10) A sweetly young Amy Winehouse is chided by Patterson: “Drinkers Rule Number One: Have Your Tea.” A grimly sterile Victoria Beckham perfume launch is refashioned as a comic masterpiece.
(11) Along with a growing band of Hollywood innovators, the producers of 21 & Over have worked closely with the Chinese government to produce an alternate cut for their audiences, one in which the film's hero is refashioned as a Chinese exchange student who ultimately shakes off the rank delinquency of American college life and returns home a reformed character.
(12) Escobar's words would be music to the ears of the mayor of Newham, Sir Robin Wales, who wants to refashion the welfare state into a system that builds resilience.
(13) The Liberal Democrat deputy hit out the day after Cameron used his annual foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor of London's banquet on Monday night to say that the euro crisis provided an opportunity for the EU to rethink its purpose and rules and to refashion it as a looser union.
(14) It is suggested that the marked lysosomal activity during early pregnancy is related to the architectural refashioning of the placenta during this period and that there are two phosphatase-linked transfer systems in the trophoblast, one dependent upon acid-phosphatase-containing multivesicular bodies and being utilised during early pregnancy and the other reliant upon alkaline phosphatase and dominating during the second half of gestation.
(15) In his annual foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor of London's banquet on Monday, Cameron said the crisis provided an opportunity for the EU to rethink its purpose and rules and to refashion it as a looser union.
(16) Those speeches about refashioning capitalism – from Clegg, Miliband and even David Cameron last week – are asking the right questions.
(17) Thrombosed shunts were treated either by refashioning the shunt (1 patient) or splenectomy and gastric devascularization (2 patients).
(18) The Labour national executive on Tuesday agreed the terms of reference for the inquiry into how Labour and the unions should refashion their relationship, and left open whether the party will look again at voting powers at conference.
(19) Complications were recorded at some stage after colostomy in 25% but only 10% required surgical refashioning.
(20) But a century or so of work by Egyptologists has seen those "mounds" refashioned into temples, shrines and the outlines of ancient houses.
Remake
Definition:
(v. t.) To make anew.
Example Sentences:
(1) Washington takes the role made famous by Edward Woodward in the 1980s US TV series that inspired the modern remake.
(2) Also likely to pick up a half-term audience, perhaps surprisingly, is the RoboCop remake, since its 12A certificate makes it available to younger teens or children of any age when accompanied by an adult.
(3) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
(4) All the statistics released about the Work Programme show execrable results, and yet we've heard nothing about penalties, or remaking the contracts, or rethinking the system.
(5) Commissioners insist on original drama dealing with issues in contemporary society: no remakes, no adaptations.
(6) State department staffers have complained privately that he should have consulted staff on how to remake the state department before backing job cuts of up to 2,300 .
(7) Because of its reliability, lack of contraindications, feasibility at the patient's bed, easy remaking, US examination is the first choice approach to the patient with blunt abdominal trauma.
(8) Columbia Pictures has bought the remake rights to the TV series, and to the original quartet of novels by David Peace on which it was based.
(9) Effects of neurotensin (NT) applied via the blood vessel on the responses to stimulation of Remak's nerve (RNS) were investigated in the chicken isolated and perfused rectums.
(10) Even the Teletubbies’ creator, Anne Wood – the Steven Spielberg of children’s TV – told the Radio Times she was “a bit sad” about the remake.
(11) The way they look, like extras from a remake of Men in Black filmed around FWD>> , has added to the growing excitement that they are going to deliver the most fantastical future-funk of the century.
(12) The arcane wiring when electricity came along, the subsequent clumsy rewiring; the cheap flat conversion in the 1960s; the constant saga of patch and mend from occupants who never have the money or vision to remake the whole thing from scratch - all this, and more, was paralleled on the WCML on an enormous scale.
(13) The company counts just over 21m homes in the United States as customers, and has become in its a way a commissioning broadcaster – buying up a Kevin Spacey remake of House of Cards and part-funding the return of the Jason Bateman cult comedy Arrested Development.
(14) When they remake Lord of The Rings maybe I'll play it.
(15) We are unbelievably sophisticated at that.” His most celebrated work, the remaking of Berlin’s bombed-out Neues Museum , which opened in 2009 after a decade of work he called “an unbelievably positive experience”, was based on a serious debate about meaning that he finds lacking in Britain.
(16) The French unit also has proposals for a new film from Dutch genre icon Paul Verhoeven and a remake of 1988 cult horror Maniac Cop on its slate for Cannes.
(17) First, it can be made for a fraction of the cost of those purchased commercially and second, the plaster trap is easily cleaned by replacing the bucket without remaking the lid portion.
(18) Why swapping heroes for heroines is a Top Dollar idea Read more The potential gender-swap casting comes after Britain’s Andrea Riseborough was named earlier this month as a frontrunner to play the villain Top Dollar in a high-profile upcoming remake of cult comic book movie The Crow.
(19) When a fixed partial denture fails due to recurrent caries under the casting of the abutments, a remake process usually requires a great deal of cooperation, multiple lengthy appointments, and financial resources.
(20) 'The positive critical reception, word of mouth and the rise of Nordic noir fiction has seen a snowball effect on the popularity of subtitled drama' The Returned Were it not for the success of The Killing et al, The Returned might have found itself quietly picking up a small but loyal audience in a graveyard slot on E4, or the network might have preferred to wait for the forthcoming US remake.