Readjust
[riːə'dʒʌst] or [,riə'dʒʌst]
Definition
(verb.) adjust anew; 'After moving back to America, he had to readjust'.
(verb.) adjust again after an initial failure.
Edited by Clare--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
Editor: Nell
Definition
v.t. to adjust or put in order again or in a new way.—n. Readjust′ment.
Editor: Monica
Examples
- She paused to readjust the bottle to the child's bubbling mouth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He had so definitely decided on the course he meant to pursue that for the moment he could not readjust his thoughts. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The aneroid barometers are frequently made no larger than a watch and can be carried conveniently in the pocket, but they get out of order easily and must be frequently readjusted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Winifred readjusted herself a little. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Promising them to report their situation, I left, readjusted myself to my horse, recommenced the run, and was soon with the troops at the east end. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The sleeve was readjusted, the bracelet replaced. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In Howe's the cloth could be sewed but a certain distance at a time, and then the machine must be readjusted for a new length. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is the nature of a readjusting of habit to involve an effort which is disagreeable--something to which a man has deliberately to hold himself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That was the secret of his way of readjusting her vision. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In doing so, she displaces the mother's dress, but quickly readjusts it over the wounded and bruised bosom where the baby has been lying. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The loop-setter instantly readjusts this loop automatically, keeping it always in force. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Cathryn