to rewire
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4.8
- verb
- /riːˈwaɪər/
:
recablear
- The electrician arrived early to rewire the entire building with new, safer circuits.
Then I need to rewire the electronics, make a brain, shred, shred shred shred shred.
- Then I need to rewire the electronics, make a brain, shred, shred shred shred shred.
- I think anyway they're going to come back to make sure that everything's safe and start rewiring, which is really exciting.
- So gradually now, with increasing speed, this country is being rewired not with telephone wires but with glass fibres.
Examples
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I have to rewire everything.
Fiction book (2002) -
I've been meaning to rewire the house so it could take a heavier pull and to get a new generator, both.
Fiction book (1994) -
And we still have to rewire the whole place.
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Just gonna rewire this real quick.
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We have to rewire the whole thing.
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I cannot just rewire your apartment.
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Yeah, the whole building needs to be rewired.
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l rewired the lamp in your office.
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The elevator had been rewired and was ready to go.
Fiction book (1995) -
Classrooms everywhere are being rewired not just for sound and video but for data transfer as well.
Academic text (1995)
How Thoroughly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rewire comes from the parts re- ('again') and wire ('metal thread that carries electricity'), so it means to put new electrical wires into a building or device.