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redecorating

verb

present participle of redecorate
as in redoing

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  1. redoing
  2. painting
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  • Kidd has been doing some work at Nanea on the Big Island, including redoing the irrigation and a bunker renovation effort, and is excited about the chance to team with the Areté Collective to reimagine one of Hawaii’s older courses.
    — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The city, state and RTD just spent hundreds of millions of dollars and almost a decade redoing the mall based entirely around the running of fast and frequent free buses through the heart of downtown.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 24 July 2026
Definition of redoing
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  • The lawsuit also accuses two men in Peru of painting a series of works purportedly signed by Warhol and arranging for the canvases to be shipped to Roberts’s gallery.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Sesame proteins were found in a red sample from a coffin fragment and a tomb wall painting fragment, and moringa proteins were detected on a coffin sample.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of painting
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