to redescribe
- verb
- /ˌriːdɪˈskaɪb/
:
redescribir
- The author will redescribe the main character's motivations in the second edition of the book.
- redescribe reality
Examples
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Parfit redescribes death as the disappearance of psychological continuity and the persistence of other kinds of continuity.
Academic text (2016) -
In this essay, and elsewhere in her work, Butler attempts to redescribe the frames or contexts of the debates between feminists: it is not simply that some are theorizing under the sign of the postmodern while others are theorizing under the sign of the modern.
Academic text (2001) -
We do not need to redescribe it because we are all living it.
Academic text (1996) -
Such language is required to redescribe and re-present what reality is and might be; it is required for character formation and for authentic praxis.
Academic text (1993) -
Terrorists might justify their actions as necessary for the good they intend, or they might redescribe their activities in an effort to appeal to something like the doctrine of double effect.
Academic text (2002) -
The claim about the theory being subtly redescribed needs to be substantiated.
Academic text (1998) -
The other way in which compassion is necessary to the virtuous person is that it continually redescribes her or his own conception of how to live.
Academic text (1999) -
The continued elevation of the value of health and well-being, with the addition of now viewing risk factors for disease as almost equivalent to disease itself, redescribes 'healthy' as not merely freedom from disease, along with complete mental and physical well-being, but now freedom from the risk of future disease (Crawshaw 2013).
Academic text (2018) -
The teacher decided to redescribe the lesson to make it easier for the students to understand.
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After receiving feedback, she chose to redescribe her research findings in a clearer format.
Synonyms
112
2.8
To make a new version of a text to improve or change it
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4.1
To say the same thing using different words to make it clearer
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3.7
To say something again in different words to make it clearer
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3.4
To say something again in a different, clearer way
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2.8
To tell a story or event again in different words
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5.8
To explain something again in a different way to give it a new meaning
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5.6
Present an idea in a different form or style
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3.5
Write something again to make it better
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6.7
To say something again in a clearer way
Say something again in a clearer way
To make the main idea shorter and clearer
How Different
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Redescribe starts with re- meaning 'again' and the part describe meaning 'to say or write what something is like', so to redescribe is to 'describe again' or to explain something in a new, clearer way.