refit
/ˈɹiːfɪt/
refit noun: the process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
Noun
refit (plural refits)
- The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
- The ship required a refit before setting out again.
- At the start, the team removed the sides and the ceiling panels, alongside the seats. They then stripped out the cabling that runs through the carriage. Once that was done, the carriage would be ready for the refit.2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 27
Verb
refit (third-person singular simple present refits, present participle refitting, simple past and past participle refitted or refit)
- To fit again; to put back into its place.
- The truth is they made no great scruple, at least for that one time, to come under the Stern of their Neighbouring Common-wealth, thereby to have better leisure to recollect and refit the scattered planks and pieces of their own broken Republic.1677, Philip Meadows, A Narrative of the Principal Actions Occurring in the Wars Betwixt Sueden and Denmark, London: A.C. and H. Brome, pp. 122-123
- […] I have seen a Man ride with both his feet upon the Saddle, take off his Saddle, and at his return take it up again, refit, and remount it, riding all the while full speed;1685, chapter 48, in Charles Cotton, transl., Essays of Michael, seigneur de Montaigne, volume 1, London: T. Basset and W. Hensman, page 558
- To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.
- to refit a garment; to refit ships of war
- But these [aqueducts] by the sloth and carelesness of the Greeks and Turks falling to decay and rendred useless, were restored and refitted by the Emperor Suleiman, who was so intent upon this great work, that he said he would go on with it, although the laying every stone stood him in a purse of...1678, Thomas Smith, Remarks upon the Manners, Religion and Government of the Turks, London: Moses Pitt, page 323
- To fit out or supply again (with something).
- For what can be more comfortable then to be asserted from the power of the grave, and rescued from death and mortality, to have our Soul refitted with Organs, and all the bodily powers awakened again so as to lose nothing by our fall;1679, John Goodman, chapter 5, in The Penitent Pardoned, London: R. Royston, page 332
- Permit our Ships a Shelter on your Shoars,
Refitted from your Woods with Planks and Oars;1697, John Dryden (translator), Virgil’s Aeneis, Book 1, lines 776-777, in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 224
- To prepare a vessel for use again (e.g. by replenishing depleted supplies or doing maintenance or repair work); (of a vessel) to be prepared for use again.
- […] I discovered two Gallies making towards Nicita, whom I saluted with two Cannons, which I levelled and fired my self, so happily, that one of them being shot through between wind and water, was fain to go off to refit, and the other had three or four slaves killed.1669, uncredited translator, Memoires of Henry, D. of Guise, London: Henry Herringman, Book 5, p. 499
- As soon as we were out of danger, we came to anchor and refitted;1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, volume 2, London: for the author, page 117
refit meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
refit in Tamil
- திருத்து
refit in Urdu
- دوبارہ سمانا, مرمت کرنا
refit in Bengali
- কোনো কিছু পুনরায় স্থাপন, মেরামত, পুনরুদ্ধার করার প্রক্রিয়া, পুনরায় স্থাপন করা, যথাস্থানে ফিরিয়ে রাখা
refit in Malayalam
- നന്നാക്കുക, വീണ്ടും കൂട്ടിയിണക്കുക, പുനഃസജ്ജീകരിക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
- refit in Kannada
- ಸರಿಪಡಿಸು, ಮತ್ತೆಸೇರಿಸು, ನೇರ್ಪಡಿಸು
Examples of refit in a sentence
- Michelangelo took a group outside and in full view of the papal troops refitted the fallen, shattered stone into the walls.1961, Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Book 9, p. 554:
- […] for the next half-hour I looked on, fascinated, while his large soft hands took apart the entire pump and refitted the parts.1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Penguin, published 1984, page 51:
- However, the horns have now been refitted to their normal position, with the bolts of the alternative positioning still fitted.2026 January 21, “Another Swietelsky Class 37 revived”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 12:
- […] all the three theatres have been repeatedly altered, and refitted, and enlarged, to make them capacious of the crowds, that nightly flock to them;1797, Edmund Burke, A third letter to a Member of the present Parliament: on the proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France...
Forms of refit
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | refits |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | refits |
| present participle | refitting |
| past participle | refitted |
| past | refitted |
| past participle | refit |
| past | refit |
Origin of refit
From re- + fit.
Words formed from refit
Questions about refit
- What does refit mean?
- Refit means the process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
- What is refit in Tamil?
- Refit in Tamil is திருத்து. See Refit meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use refit in a sentence?
- Michelangelo took a group outside and in full view of the papal troops refitted the fallen, shattered stone into the walls.
- What part of speech is refit?
- Refit can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce refit?
- Refit is pronounced /ˈɹiːfɪt/.
- What is the plural of refit?
- The plural of refit is refits.
Words near refit in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: refit (page history and authors); refit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); refit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); refit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); refit (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); refit (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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