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to rewire

to rewire

8 6.1
To change a person's habits and how their brain works by repeated practice
  • verb
  • /riːˈwaɪər/
translation icon : reprogramar
  • Therapy can help rewire your brain to better cope with stress.
  • rewiring your brain

We also have to rewire how people think.

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Examples

  • You can alter the way you react and actually rewire your brain.

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  • 21 days to rewire our brain and our way of thinking.

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  • We also have to rewire how people think.

  • This is real ancient stuff, but it will rewire your brain.

  • Then simply thinking about something does rewire your brain.

  • I can tell you exactly how to rewire that.

  • The more we can care, understand, and rewire, the better off we might be in the long run.

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  • So I'm going to teach you how to rewire your brain so that you can win in life.

  • We get people to rewire how they perceive the world.

  • So you need to rewire your tendencies.

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Synonyms

to reconfigure
vsto rewire
  • Specialized
53 5.4

Change the order or settings of something to fit new needs

targets long term neural habit change rather than mere structural adjustments
to reprogram
vsto rewire
7 5.6

Help a person change their habits or beliefs through training

focuses on deep neural and habit change via repeated practice or therapy
to recalibrate
vsto rewire
7 6.5

Change a plan or attitude to fit new information

involves more thorough mental change of processes over time

How Deep

to rewire
8 6.1
to reprogram
7 5.6
to retrain
19 3.1
to practice
  • US
697 1.0
to remind
1.0

Surface Forms

rewire infinitive
rewired past
rewired past participle
rewiring present participle
rewires third person singular

Morphology

rewire = wire (semi-transparent) = re + wire

The prefix 're-' indicates repetition or change, but the figurative sense of changing mental processes is not immediately obvious.

Etymology

Rewire is also used in a figurative way: think of the brain or habits as a set of 'wires', and to rewire them is to change those connections through practice or therapy, which is why people say someone can 'rewire the brain' when they form new habits.