restage

verb

re·​stage (ˌ)rē-ˈstāj How to pronounce restage (audio)
restaged; restaging

transitive verb

: to stage (something) again
The play was restaged abroad.

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Yet that’s been a steady drumbeat in the Jurassic Worlds since the 2015 installment, which restaged the T. rex goat-eating scene from the original Jurassic Park — one of the most incredible reveals since the one in Jaws — from the perspective of a blasé teen who turns away to take a call. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 June 2025 Reeves doesn’t show up in Ballerina until about 30 minutes into the film, where Wiseman cleverly restages a scene from John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum where Wick seeks refuge from his old ally The Director in her theater. Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025 The three sections, ‘The Garden,’ ‘The Replica,’ and ‘Then Roses,’ contain several discrete instances of restaging the same poem – ‘The Twenty-First Century,’ ‘Author’s Myth,’ ‘Borges Sells Me the Apple, Sells Me the World’ – as Sisyphean attempts. Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025 The opera will be restaged at the opera festival in Aix, roughly 50 miles away, on July 13, 14 and 16. Laura Van Straaten, New York Times, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for restage

Word History

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of restage was in 1893

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“Restage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/restage. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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