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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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verb

To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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Dictionary Entry

redefinition

Part of Speechnoun

The act or event of redefining.

In a Sentence

“George Orwell's novel 1984 proposed that people's thoughts could be constrained by the redefinition of words in their language.”

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Common Phrases

. redefinitionredefinition radical
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Related Words

reformulationre-engineeringreworkingreclassificationrethinkingrecastoverhaulredrafting

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