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to retile

to retile

1 4.4
To put new tiles on a surface, replacing old tiles
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈtaɪl/
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  • I asked what he would charge to enlarge the shower entrance so a wheelchair would fit in, and he said the floor would have to be retiled to allow this alteration.
  • retile your bathroom
  • retiling the floor

Examples

  • They're taking the boulder out Tuesday, and retiling on a Saturday, I hope.

  • You'll have the balance on Saturday once it's retiled.

  • I actually tried to retile the bathroom, too.

  • You know, Sally and I have to retile the bathroom every six months.

  • Oh, I retiled my bathroom.

  • In three years, I've had to retile it twice.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • I know, took me months just to get my bathroom retiled.

  • I'm kind of, you know, retiling the bathroom.

  • Over Thanksgiving, help her repair the watermarked ceiling, retile the master bathroom, and install a new brass door handle on the front door.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • We decided to retile the kitchen floor to match the new cabinets.

Synonyms

to tile
vsto retile
17 3.0

To cover a surface with flat hard pieces of material

means putting new pieces specifically to replace old ones
to resurface
vsto retile
4 3.9

To put a new surface on a road or floor

involves replacing old pieces with new decorative pieces

Surface Forms

retile infinitive
retiled past
retiled past participle
retiling present participle
retiles third person singular

Morphology

retile = tile (transparent) = re + tile

The meaning is the standard iterative sense of 're-' added to the verb 'tile', meaning 'tile again' or 'put new tiles on'.

Etymology

Retile is made of the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the word tile, a small flat piece used on floors and walls, so to retile is to put tiles on a surface again, usually replacing the old ones.