to retile
- verb
- /ˌriːˈtaɪl/
- 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
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They're taking the boulder out Tuesday, and retiling on a Saturday, I hope.
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You'll have the balance on Saturday once it's retiled.
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I actually tried to retile the bathroom, too.
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You know, Sally and I have to retile the bathroom every six months.
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Oh, I retiled my bathroom.
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In three years, I've had to retile it twice.
Fiction book (1998) -
I know, took me months just to get my bathroom retiled.
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I'm kind of, you know, retiling the bathroom.
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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 cover a surface with flat hard pieces of material
To put a new surface on a road or floor
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.