Rearrange
[riːə'reɪn(d)ʒ] or [,riə'rendʒ]
Definition
(verb.) put into a new order or arrangement; 'Please rearrange these files'; 'rearrange the furniture in my room'.
Edited by Ethelred--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To arrange again; to arrange in a different way.
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Definition
v.t. to arrange anew.—n. Rearrange′ment.
Typist: Stanley
Examples
- She would re-thread her needle, rearrange tuck and trimming, and work on. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He paused, and examined her attentively while she affected to rearrange the tea-cups. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- These she rearranged. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The soft hair whose locks were loosened she rearranged, the damp brow she refreshed with a cool, fragrant essence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And Caroline, sitting near her mother, rearranged her muslin handkerchief and resmoothed her hair. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I must request thee, Thomas, not to use such language, says Aunt Dorcas, as she quietly rearranged the bed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It can then, with the utmost convenience, be read over, corrected amply, rearranged freely, retyped, and recorrected. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was opened presently by a woman with a child in her arms, whose unoccupied hand was hastily rearranging the upper part of her dress. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The civilization in which we live to-day is simply carrying on and still further developing and working out and rearranging these relationships. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One evening, after the child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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