to remold

Examples

• All

• The work of Traven is appropriated, remolded, and turned into a prop with which the authors support statements like the following:

  Academic text (2000)

• As I remember my sexual adolescence, I also remember that the year between my 17th and 18th birthdays, when I set out to re-create myself physically by remolding my broken body, was probably the single best year of a life that has been filled with its share of good years.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The Forum was remolded; the aquarium is being remolded.

  Blog text (29)

• Even under pristine conditions, plastic resins can only be melted down and remolded a handful of times as their polymers degrade with juice.

• He decided to remold the broken clay figurine to give it a new shape.

• After an accident, the mechanic had to remold the damaged parts of the car.

• The artist can remold the wax sculpture to create a better likeness.

Synonyms

R

to reshape

vsto remold

49 3.5

To change the form of something so it looks different

focuses on shaping often by casting or remaking for repair

R

to remodel

vsto remold

35 3.7

To change the shape and look of something, usually a room or building

is more about physical reshaping by casting or repair rather than general updating

R

to refashion

vsto remold

3 4.9

To change something into a new or different form

leans toward reshaping through casting or remaking for practical repair

R

to recast

vsto remold

• Specialized

1 5.5

Melt metal and form it into a new shape

is broader, applying to shaping by casting or other remaking for repair

R

to recarve

vsto remold

1 6.9

Cut new shapes or details into something that was already cut

uses casting or broader remaking rather than carving as the usual method

R

to reforge

vsto remold

1 7.6

Make something again by melting and shaping it or by changing it a lot

stresses physical reshaping, especially casting or remaking for repair, not only figurative change

Antonyms

D

to destroy

∞ 1.0

Damage something so badly that it cannot be used or fixed

How Shaped

to reconstruct

33 3.9

to recast

9 5.6

to remold

• US

1 4.9

to reshape

49 3.5

to patch

151 2.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology