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re-design

re-design is the alternative form of redesign.

Meaning of redesign

Verb

redesign (third-person singular simple present redesigns, present participle redesigning, simple past and past participle redesigned)

  1. To lay out or plan a new version of something previously laid out or planned.
    • It became clear at last that the secondary windings were not strong enough to withstand the severe electro-magnetic forces to which they had been subjected and that the transformer would have to be redesigned.1961 March, “Interim report on the Glasgow suburban electric train failures”, in Trains Illustrated, page 176

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Forms of re-design

third-person singular presentre-designs
present participlere-designing
past participlere-designed
pastre-designed

Questions about re-design

What is re-design the alternative form of?
Re-design is the alternative form of redesign.

Words near re-design in the dictionary

  1. re-defining
  2. re-deport
  3. re-deported
  4. re-deporting
  5. re-deports
  6. re-design
  7. re-designed
  8. re-designing
  9. re-designs
  10. re-dip
  11. re-dipped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-design (page history and authors); redesign (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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