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redraw

redraw verb: to draw again.

Verb

redraw (third-person singular simple present redraws, present participle redrawing, simple past redrew, past participle redrawn)

  1. To draw again.
    • The treaty proposed to redraw the border lines between the nations.
    • The party that holds the White House historically struggles in midterm elections, and Republicans are defending an especially narrow majority in the House. Those challenges have led Trump to pressure red states across the country to redraw their congressional district boundaries to give his party...2025 September 19, Patrick Svitek, Emily Guskin and Scott Clement, “Most Americans critical of Trump on crime, economy and other issues, poll finds”, in The Washington Post, archived from the...

Noun

redraw (plural redraws)

  1. An update to the screen display.
    • Redraws need to be synchronised with the screen refresh to avoid a flickery display.
  2. An act of drawing (selecting at random) again.
    • Jack didn't like who was picked so he used his power to force a redraw. Remember that his power means ALL chips go back into the bag.2019 July 20, Brian Smith, “POV Players Spoilers (7/20/2019)”, in alt.tv.big-brother (Usenet)

Examples of redraw in a sentence

  • When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.
  • We preshifted the game sprites to avoid having to redraw them at different positions during gameplay.
  • After a second, the teen redrew the plunger and the syringe turned red with his blood.

All 15 example sentences with redraw

Forms of redraw

Verb
third-person singular presentredraws
present participleredrawing
pastredrew
past participleredrawn
Noun
pluralredraws

Past tense of redraw: redrew

Origin of redraw

From re- + draw.

Words formed from redraw

Questions about redraw

What does redraw mean?
Redraw means to draw again.
What part of speech is redraw?
Redraw can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of redraw?
The past tense of redraw is redrew.

Words near redraw in the dictionary

  1. redraping
  2. redraught
  3. redraughted
  4. redraughting
  5. redraughts
  6. redraw
  7. redrawer
  8. redrawers
  9. redrawing
  10. redrawings
  11. redrawn

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