RETROFITTED Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

retrofitted

verb

variants or retrofit

past tense of retrofit

as in rebuilt

to provide (something) with new parts that were not available when it was originally built The factory has been retrofitted to meet the new safety regulations. We can retrofit your car with the new fuel system.

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Recent Examples of retrofitted The others were retrofitted using UHPFRC alone or UHPFRC paired with smart steel. —

Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 Feb. 2026 For the ceremonies, the ancient Arena has been retrofitted with new wheelchair ramps and accessible restrooms along with other safety upgrades. —

ABC News, 19 Feb. 2026 The Charger 2 works with around 95% of third-party power stations, so users are free to retrofit their builds. —

New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2026 But the facility was reopened in March 2025 and retrofitted to again house children. —

Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026 A lot of companies are still trying to retrofit AI into existing workflows, while the genuine visionaries are redesigning entire workflows with AI as the foundation. —

Mark Minevich, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026 Almost every gallery and store had wheelchair entry, retrofitted into eighteenth-century infrastructure in ways that would trigger decades-long preservation battles back in the UK. —

Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026 The city passed legislation nearly 18 months ago requiring property owners to retrofit their multi-story, wooden-frame buildings with at least three units constructed before 1990. —

Devan Patel, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026 The latest blueprints depict mega-campuses built in multiple phases over decades, while existing data centers must be retrofitted for modern AI. —

Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026

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The four-bedroom, five-bathroom residence itself spans 3,888 square feet over two levels and has been stripped back and rebuilt to feel essentially like new construction, while retaining its 1956 footprint and low-slung, modern profile.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 21 Feb. 2026
All the entrances were reopened after being bombed shut, the support area by the entrance was mostly rebuilt and some tunnels are now open, according to a CNN analysis and Sam Lair, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies (CNS).

— Farida Elsebai, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026