rebottle

verb

re·​bot·​tle (ˌ)rē-ˈbä-tᵊl 

rebottled; rebottling; rebottles

transitive verb

1

: to bottle or bottle up (something) again or anew

If you're happy with the flavor, strain the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer and rebottle your flavored rum.

—Christina Jordan

Disclosure of a trade secret compromises its protection and trade secret status. And once lost, this status is gone forever—you cannot rebottle a known secret.

—Jim Adams

2

: to put (something) into a new form : repackage

Atheists and agnostics have long tried to rebottle religion: to get the community and the good works without the supernatural stuff.

—Mark Oppenheimer

The result is old music rebottled for new times: brief pieces in dizzying sequence for an age of narrow attention spans …

—Anand Giridharadas

Examples of rebottle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Eventually, other shoe companies realized that World Athletics wasn’t going to rebottle the genie. — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1757, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for rebottle

• bottle
• cottle
• glottal
• mottle
• pottle
• scrotal
• throttle
• wattle
• chrysotile
• nahuatl