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remaneuver

remaneuver verb: to maneuver again, especially when the maneuver is to change or correct the result of the previous maneuver.

Verb

remaneuver (third-person singular simple present remaneuvers, present participle remaneuvering, simple past and past participle remaneuvered)

  1. To maneuver again, especially when the maneuver is to change or correct the result of the previous maneuver.
    • Maude Purvis was the granddaughter of an American Southern gentleman, Robert Louis Earle Purvis, who somehow mismaneuvered himself into association with the Yankees during the Civil War and quickly thereafter remaneuvered himself to distant Batavia where he found a happy and prosperous haven .1956, American Universities Field Staff, Fieldstaff Reports: Southeast Asia series - Volumes 4-6, page 6
    • He ground his tractor into reverse and backed away from the blower faster than he usually did, backing the eighteen-foot-long , ten-ton load to a point where he could remaneuver and come in correctly.1992, Karen Kringle, Vital Ties: A Novel, page 246

Noun

remaneuver (plural remaneuvers)

  1. An instance of remaneuvering.
    • Timothy belatedly thought to ask, for no reason at all that he could think of, asked of no one in particular, as if he had been delayed, his life delayed by multiplying introductions to life, but Philly Morris and Gloria Dehaven had abruptly turned their considerable backs, pretending, as a sudden...1996, Robert Eaton Kelley, The First Book of Timothy, page 236
    • The whole idea behind these Saturday maneuvers and remaneuvers is to build strength and endurance.2010, Shane Borrowman, Stuart Brown, Thomas Miller, Renewing Rhetoric's Relation to Composition

Forms of remaneuver

Verb
third-person singular presentremaneuvers
present participleremaneuvering
past participleremaneuvered
pastremaneuvered
Noun
pluralremaneuvers

Origin of remaneuver

From re- + maneuver.

Questions about remaneuver

What does remaneuver mean?
Remaneuver means to maneuver again, especially when the maneuver is to change or correct the result of the previous maneuver.
What part of speech is remaneuver?
Remaneuver can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of remaneuver?
The past tense of remaneuver is remaneuvered.

Words near remaneuver in the dictionary

  1. remanency
  2. remanent
  3. remanents
  4. remanet
  5. remanets
  6. remaneuver
  7. remaneuvered
  8. remaneuvering
  9. remaneuvers
  10. remanifest
  11. remanifestation

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