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rewires

rewires is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rewire.

Meaning of rewire

Verb

rewire (third-person singular simple present rewires, present participle rewiring, simple past and past participle rewired)

  1. To replace or reconnect the wires of a device or installation.
    • I had to rewire the circuit where the old wires had shorted out.
  2. To change the functionality of something by altering the parameters or logic.
    • When our companies merged, I rewired our payment processing system to handle their invoices as well.

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Questions about rewires

What is rewires the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rewires is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rewire.

Words near rewires in the dictionary

  1. rewire
  2. rewireable
  3. rewired
  4. rewirer
  5. rewirers
  6. rewires
  7. rewiring
  8. rewirings
  9. Rewis
  10. rewithdraw
  11. rewithdrawal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rewires (page history and authors); rewire (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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