Rebuild

Definition: Rebuild

Rebuild

Verb

1. Build again; "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rebuild" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonym: Rebuild

Restoration

Reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconvert; renew, renovate; regenerate; rejuvenate.

Crosswords: Rebuild

Parties in this house, I usually end up having to rebuild something (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

And i want this wall 9 feet high, firing steps on the inside, form details to clear away the Zulu bodies, rebuild the south rampart, keep 'em moving (Zulu; writing credit: John Prebble;)

Next master, we rebuild the foot (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology (The Six Million Dollar Man; writing credit: Larry Brody; Richard Carr)

So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins, (Immigrant song; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)

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Books

• Ford Mustang 1994 Thru 2000 All Models: Haynes Repair Manual Based on a Complete Teardown and Rebuild (Haynes Automotive Repair Manual) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• People's Century: Asia Rising - Japan and Korea Rebuild (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Construct Destroy Rebuild (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Replanting marsh grass in an effort to protect and rebuild this beach near Annapolis. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Use of logs and rocks to catch sediment and rebuild stream near Deadwood, Oregon. This will improve salmon habitat. Credit: Gary Wilson.

NRCS employee Gary Briggs and local conservationist evaluating the effects of logs and rocks placed in the stream to catch sediment and rebuild the stream. This will improve salmon habitat in the stream. Credit: Gary Wilson.

Log structures in stream to catch sediment and rebuild salmon habitat. Credit: Gary Wilson.

Albion, New York (vicinity). The Friends' new home had been vacant for many years but they play to rebuild the place and make a real home for themselves. Credit: Library of Congress.

Our government is responsible ... our people must rebuild. Credit: Library of Congress.

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When their houses are in ruins they rebuild them without cost

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Health

Also, their bodies can rebuild healthy tissues faster. (references)

With treatment and support, many individuals are able to stop drinking and rebuild their lives. (references)

Investigators believe that these alterations may be an attempt by the cell to rebuild nerve cell contacts lost early in the disease. (references)

Business

The city of Buenos Aires plans to rebuild an entertainment park, Parque de la Ciudad, in addition to several other private projects providing opportunities for theme design specialists who focus on tourism and youth projects. (references)

At the same time the GON is seeking to rebuild Kongsberg into a bigger and more diversified company reminiscent of the "Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik" that was broken up in the late 1980s as a result of the "Kongsberg-Toshiba" export licensing case. There has also been a strong effort on the part of the MOD to support its small defense industry by requiring 100 percent offset for any Norwegian military contracts in excess of 50 million NOK. Moreover, it is not an easy process for an American company to acquire a controlling interest in any Norwegian company nor to manage that company with wide latitude, given the nature of the Norwegian economy and labor practices. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bosnia and Herzegovina

RS authorities continued to obstruct attempts to rebuild many of the 83 mosques in the RS that were destroyed during the 1992-1995 war. (references)

Lebanon

Although some persons have begun to reclaim homes abandoned or damaged during the war, the vast majority of displaced persons have not attempted to reclaim and rebuild their property. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

However, on May 30, the RS National Assembly adopted a report blaming the Islamic community for creating a situation, by seeking to rebuild the mosque, in which violent demonstrations became likely. (references)

Economic History

Panama

Panamanians moved quickly to rebuild their civilian constitutional government. (references)

Kenya

The U.S. also is helping the Kenyan victims of the August 7, 1998 bombing of the American Embassy to recover and rebuild. (references)

Afghanistan

Following the 1979 invasion, the Soviets augmented their large aid commitments to shore up the Afghan economy and rebuild the Afghan military. (references)

Human Rights

Nigeria

After order was restored, Governor Kwankwaso held a series of meetings with local ethnic and religious leaders to stem further outbreaks and to rebuild trust between the communities. (references)

Afghanistan

The Bonn Agreement called for the establishment of a Judicial Commission to rebuild the domestic justice system in accordance with Islamic principles, international standards, the rule of law, and Afghan legal traditions. (references)

Croatia

Preliminary work was initiated to rebuild several hundred minority homes, the procedure to apply for reconstruction assistance was reopened, mechanisms were instituted to allow applications from refugees still outside of the country, and the Government mounted an effective information campaign to apprise refugees in Bosnia and Yugoslavia of these developments. (references)

Minorities

Cyprus

Military officials indicated that the action was an error and promised to rebuild the house; however, it had not yet been rebuilt by year's end. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

The Government has yet to agree with the pre-1948 residents of the northern villages of Bir Am and Ikrit, and their descendants, regarding their long-term demand to be allowed to rebuild their houses. (references)

Political Economy

HONDURAS

Massive international assistance, led by the United States at approximately $644 million for 1998-2001, provided emergency relief and is helping Honduras rebuild. (references)

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Albanian

rindërtoj (overhaul, realign, rearrange, recondition, reconstruct, re-edify), ndërtoj përsëri, bëj riparim kapital, bëj rikonstruksion (rebuilt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أعاد البناء (reconstruct, remodel), ‏أعاد بناء شيء. (various references)

Bulgarian 

възстановявам (fix up, furbish, get better, give back, make good, mend, re establish, recondition, reconstruct, recover, reedify, re-enact, regenerate, reinstate, renovate, repair, restore, revive, revivify), преправям (alter, bushel, convert, do over, redo, remake, reshape). (various references)

Chinese 

改建 . (various references)

Czech

přestavìt (alter, convert, rearrange, reconstruct), obnovit (give back, re establish, redintegrate, regenerate, reinstate, renew, renovate, reproduce, restore, resume, retrieve, revamp, revive, rub up). (various references)

Danish

modernisere det rullende materiel (to modernise the rolling stock, to rebuild the rolling stock, to recondition the rolling stock, to reconstruct the rolling stock, to remodel the rolling stock, to renovate the rolling stock, to revamp the rolling stock). (various references)

Dutch

verbouwen (cultivate, grow). (various references)

Farsi 

چیزدوباره ساخته شده , دوباره ساختمان کردن , بازساختن . (various references)

Finnish

rakentaa uudelleen, rakentaa jälleen (reconstruct, re-erect). (various references)

French

reconstruire (reconstruct, remodel). (various references)

German

umbauen (adapt, alter, build, convert, customize, make over, modify, renovate, reorganize, to reconstruct). (various references)

Greek 

ανοικοδομώ (reconsvruct). (various references)

Hebrew 

לבנות מחדש (recast). (various references)

Hungarian

újjáépít (rebuilt, reconstruct, to rebuild, to restore). (various references)

Indonesian

membangun kembali. (various references)

Italian

riorganizzare (redeploy, rejig, reorganise, reorganize), rifare (ape, do again, go back to, imitate, make again, make up, redo, refashion, remake, repair), riedificare, ricostruire (piece together, reconstruct, re-enact). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

作り直す (to rebuild, to remake), 建て直す (to rebuild, to reconstruct), 建て替える (to rebuild, to reconstruct). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たてなおす (to make over, to rally, to rearrange, to rebuild, to reconstruct, to reorganize), たてかえる (to pay for another, to pay in advance, to pay someone else's debt as a loan to him, to rebuild, to reconstruct), つくりなおす (to rebuild, to remake). (various references)

Korean 

재건 (rebuilding, re-engineering). (various references)

Manx

aahroggal (reconstruction, resurrect; resurrection). (various references)

Pig Latin

ebuildray.(various references)

Portuguese

refazer (realign, recast, reconstruct, rehash, remake, remodel, repeat), reedificar (realign, reconstruct, reedify), reconstruir (realign, reconstruct, reedify, remake). (various references)

Romanian

rezidi (reconstruct), reface (change, do over, do up, re establish, recast, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recover, recruit, redress, reform, remake, remodel, repair, restore, retread, retrieve), reconstrui (overhaul, recondition, reconstruct), reclãdi (reconstruct). (various references)

Russian 

отстроить заново. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

remontovati (overhaul, repair), prezidati (partition), ponovo sagraditi. (various references)

Spanish

reedificar (reconstruct, reedify, reedit), reconstruir (reconstruct, reshuffle). (various references)

Swedish

återuppföra (reconstruct). (various references)

Thai

สร้างใหม่. (various references)

Turkish

yenilemek (make over, modernize, recondition, re-create, redintegrate, refurbish, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, revamp, touch up, vamp up), yeniden yapmak (redo, reiterate, remake), yeniden inşa etmek (reconstruct). (various references)

Ukrainian

реконструювати (overhaul, realign, reconstruct, remodel), відбудовувати (redeem, rehabilitate). (various references)

refecerunt, refecissent, refecit, refectis, refice, reficiam, reficiat, reficiebant, reficiendum, reficientes, reficientibus, reficieris, reficite, restauranda, restaurare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rebuild": rebuilded, rebuilding, rebuilds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rebuild" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bexbuild, reboil, reboiled, rebuilder, rebul, Reuil, Robull. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: builder.

-1 letter: birled, bridle, burdie, buried, burled, rubied.

-2 letters: bider, bield, birle, blued, bluer, bride, build, idler, liber, lubed, lured, lurid, rebid, redub, riled, ruble, ruled.

-3 letters: bedu, bide, bier, bile, bird, birl, bled, blue, blur, bred, brie, burd, burl, deil, deli, diel, dire, dirl, drib, drub, duel, dure, idle, ired, leud, lied, lier, lieu.

+1 letter: bluebird, builders, rebuilds, unbridle.

+2 letters: bluebirds, overbuild, rebuilded, reducible, reducibly, unbridled, unbridles, unridable.

+3 letters: beliquored, blundering, brutalised, brutalized, lubricated, overbuilds, producible, rebuilding, redoubling, tribulated, unlimbered.

+4 letters: blueprinted, boatbuilder, bodybuilder, burglarized, butterflied, irreducible, irreducibly, republished, shipbuilder, tuberculoid, undesirable, undesirably, undrinkable, unliberated.

+5 letters: begrudgingly, blunderingly, boatbuilders, bodybuilders, boulevardier, cloudberries, destructible, disreputable, disreputably, durabilities, equilibrated, filibustered, overbuilding, purblindness, reducibility, relubricated, reproducible, reproducibly, shipbuilders, subeditorial, subepidermal, unbridgeable, uncalibrated, underbellies, undesirables, unverbalized.