REDRAW Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

redraw

verb

Definition of redraw

as in to rewrite

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Recent Examples of redraw But before the bond hits the ballot, district officials wanted to redraw its boundaries and identify projects that could be accomplished without requesting a tax increase from voters. — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026 Democratic attempts to redraw maps in Virginia and New York were thwarted in the courts. — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026 The fallcation began as an escape from the heat and crowds of high summer, but its longer-term effect may be to redraw the entire travel calendar. — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026 The Woodland School District is making plans to redraw boundaries for the city’s elementary, middle and high schools for the first time in more than 25 years in order to balance enrollment numbers between campuses. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for redraw

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The seismic loss of Helen McCrory led to the final season being rewritten.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
Congress had written the exclusion around designation, and the court said only Congress could rewrite it around use.

— John Mildenberger, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of rewrite

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But the Planning Commission, whose five members are appointed by San Bernardino County supervisors, ordered the geologist to revise his findings and granted the vested rights to the quarry.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
In truth, the German economy has shown signs of recovery since the start of this year, leading economic research institutes to revise their full year growth forecasts upward.

— , CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of revise

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Haskins initially played Principal Belding on Disney Channel show Good Morning, Miss Bliss, which was reworked after one season and became Saved by the Bell.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2026
Indeed, the silhouette is reworked in off-white wool felt with a soft microfiber lining and finished with a custom crescent moon buckle in antique dark copper.

— Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of rework

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Wicks ultimately voted in favor of the bill after policy implications to housing construction were amended out.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
After warnings from lawmakers about the conflict of interest, Kennedy agreed to amend his ethics agreement to divest his interest to his son.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of amend

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Producers had been looking to rectify this, per our sources, since Ego Nwodim’s surprise exit in the fall of 2025.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026
The museum closure is part of new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s attempts to rectify his predecessor, Viktor Orbán’s, control of state media and arts and culture entities.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of rectify

Verb

The population consisted of workers transforming the strip of land to be habitable, even desirable, reforming the cluster into a model of hospitality.

— Erin Parish, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
As commerce secretary and later as ambassador to China, one of us, Gary Locke, worked to reform America’s export control system to better protect sensitive technologies.

— Patrick McHenry, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026

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