redo (riːˈduː
)
Definitions
verb
(tr)- to do over again
- informal to redecorate, esp thoroughly ⇒
we redid the house last summer
Translations
- British English:
redo
If you redo a piece of work, you do it again in order to improve it or change it.They had redone their sums.riːˈduː VERB They had redone their sums.
- Spanish:
rehacer
v
- French:
refaire
vt
- German: neu machen v
- Chinese: 再做 v
- Arabic: يَعيدُ عَمْلُ الشَيْء v
- Portuguese: refazer v
- Russian: переделывать v
- Croatian: uraditi ponovo v
- Czech: předělat v předělávat
- Danish: lave om v
- Dutch: overdoen v
- Finnish: uusia v
- Greek: ξανακάνω v
- Italian: rifare v
- Japanese: やり直す v
- Korean: 다시 하다 v
- Norwegian: gjøre om igjen v
- Polish: przerobić v przerabiać
- Brazilian Portuguese: refazer v
- European Spanish:
rehacer
v
- Swedish: göra om v
- Thai: ทำใหม่ v
- Turkish: yeniden yapmak v
- Vietnamese: làm lại v
Usage examples
Matty sank quietly down on the stairs and listened intently, his fingers pretending to redo the laces of his sneakers.
, Death of an Unknown Man (1987)Welch had to ask the unit to redo its budget on the assumption that GE would never get another order for nuclear reactors in the US.
Business Today (2002)They were quoted $250,000 to redo the job -- $50,000 more than the original contract.
Courier, Sunday Mail (2005)Go back to the drawing board, redo the plans and come back with something much more modest - preferably after the election.
Times, Sunday Times (2002)