REDRAW Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

redraw

verb

Definition of redraw

as in to rewrite

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Recent Examples of redraw 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 Louisiana’s legislature rushed to redraw the district after the high court’s decision, reshaping Fields’ district to cluster it around predominantly white communities in the Baton Rouge area and southern Louisiana. — Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for redraw

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Boundaries have been pushed, clothes have gotten smaller, and style rules have been rewritten, and, over the years, the VMAs have delivered no shortage of unforgettable looks.

— Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
People need to be trained, processes and policies rewritten, organizations reordered, protocols invented, budgets approved, data collected and cleaned.

— Chang Che, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of rewrite

Verb

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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The power plant features titanium headers and an Akrapovič silencer for the exhaust, and is allowed to breathe through a massive front intake that required reworking the steering head.

— Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2026
Apple has reworked its optical and electrical heart rate sensors, and now the watch measures your heart rate every five seconds throughout the day instead of only periodically, as the Series 11 does.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of rework

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Boy employees or those linked to Combs have been stalled, amended, or quietly abandoned.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
If their tax refund was inflated by claiming tax credits that don't apply to them, the taxpayer had to verify their ID first and then amend a return before any federal income tax refund could be issued.

— Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 21 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

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His promise to free Jair Bolsonaro is presented not as a rejection of the rule of law but as part of a broader pledge to reform institutions that, in his telling, have exceeded their proper authority.

— Andre Pagliarini, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026
Her Social Democratic predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, did the same in 2004 after his popularity sank during a drive to reform Germany's welfare system.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026

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