redoing 1 of 2

noun

as in alteration
the act, process, or result of making different some residents objected to the redoing of the historic school building

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redoing

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verb

present participle of redo
1
as in remodeling
to make different in some way desperately wanted to redo the red living room in soothing shades of green

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2
as in repeating
to make or do again the conductor kept asking the violinist to redo that passage until he was completely satisfied

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Recent Examples of redoing
Verb
The final stage involved completely redoing the landscaping, alongside the innovative California firm Terremoto. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2026 In Missouri's case, however, no court has suggested redoing the primary. — David A. Lieb, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026 In Missouri’s case, however, no court has suggested redoing the primary. — David A. Lieb, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026 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 By redoing it, albeit with more high-tech equipment than was available in 1919, Harksen hopes to illustrate that even monumental experiments can be re-created by the average person. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 15 July 2026 The full makeover included redoing the gym, basketball court, exercise room and surrounding outdoor spaces. — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 13 July 2026 Cleaners always work top to bottom to avoid redoing areas and save time. — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redoing
  1. alteration
  2. remodeling
  3. repeating
  4. change
  5. modifying
  6. replicating
  7. difference
  8. changing
Noun
  • Cardtoons won because its alteration of the players’ appearances was deemed sufficiently inventive and, through parody, the cards reflected social commentary protected by the First Amendment that outweighed the players’ publicity rights claims.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • This included performing the first-ever lunar-Earth flyby in August 2024, and grabbing a speed boost and trajectory alteration from the second planet from the sun, Venus, a year later in August 2025.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of alteration
Verb
  • Throughout the program’s 11 years, students have worked on four houses, remodeling two and building two from scratch in partnership with Habitat for Humanity.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Typically, McDonald's chips in some support for franchisees who are remodeling their restaurants.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of remodeling
Verb
  • Instead of splintering, the waves naturally organize themselves into repeating geometric loops.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
  • History was now repeating itself in the United States, Kristofcak thought.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of repeating
Noun
  • People left their parishes to fight in the wars, or to run away from the wars; many fled because of religious or political change, or disruption to trade or food supply, or simply relocated to take up new opportunities.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The team also mapped this change to the ventrolateral striatum (VLS), an area of the striatum involved particularly in movements of the mouth and tongue.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of change
Verb
  • Energy companies might save substantial capital by tapping naturally occurring subterranean structures rather than excavating artificial caverns or modifying depleted reservoirs.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
  • An agent might be permitted to read a database but prohibited from modifying it, generate a purchase order but not approve one, or access public websites while being blocked from transmitting sensitive corporate information.
    — Ed Fox, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of modifying
Verb
  • The stations are standardised, so capacity is added by replicating them, and this line is the blueprint for future local for local expansion, as per the release.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
  • My learning is more about understanding the mechanics of performance, the how, rather than replicating the why behind human emotions.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of replicating
Noun
  • Functional connectivity in the fetal brain develops substantially later in gestation, with measurable differences in brain activity and facial responses to noxious versus innocuous stimulation appearing at approximately 33 weeks.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Three-dimensional light fields could provide a new way to probe these subtle differences because the fields themselves can have chiral, or handed, properties.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of difference
Verb
  • Its ability to perform different missions allows commanders to employ the weapon against changing threats.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Online networks’ native agents were bringing more adaptive systems to a changing art world, using tactics celebrated in their own communities but until recently taboo in the towers of high culture.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of changing

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“Redoing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redoing. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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