rebuild
/ɹiːˈbɪld/ verb B1- To build again or anew.
- To attempt to improve one's performance during a period of struggling. · After missing the playoffs for the seventh straight season in a row, the Detroit Red Wings are trying to rebuild.
He/she/it rebuilds · Past rebuilt · Past participle rebuilt · -ing form rebuilding
Verb forms
- Base form
- rebuild
- He/she/it
- rebuilds
- Past
- rebuilt
- Past participle
- rebuilt
- -ing form
- rebuilding
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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However, as if fate resolved on depriving the prisoners of their last chance, and making them understand that they were condemned to perpetual imprisonment, a new misfortune befell them; the gallery on the sea side, which had long been in ruins, was rebuilt.
I am willing to help rebuild your fortune, but I will not be an accomplice in the ruin of others.”
Rebuilding the Globe was a monumental challenge because the original structure had tragically burned to the ground in the early seventeenth century.
Although it was quickly rebuilt, the second theater was demolished three decades later, leaving behind almost no physical evidence.
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