rebuild
part of speech
verb (rebuild, rebuilds, rebuilt, rebuilding)
meaning for a pupil
1) To rebuild is to build something again after it has been damaged or destroyed. tree →
2) To make something strong again, like your strength, trust or a team. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: The rebuilding of the house of God means repairing the Temple. The tradition keeps hope for rebuilding the Temple and Jerusalem. In the primary lessons: Used in history and news: towns are rebuilt after earthquakes, floods, fires and wars. In everyday life: rebuild a Lego model, rebuild a friendship. The prefix re- means "again".
examples
- Now concerning his sons, and the multitude of the burdens against him, and the rebuilding of the house of God, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. (Writings 2CH.24.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- They rebuilt the school after the fire. tree →
- The wall fell down, so we rebuilt it. tree →
- After the earthquake, the town was rebuilt. tree →
- I rebuilt my Lego castle. tree →
- It takes time to rebuild trust after a lie. tree →
- The team is rebuilding after losing players. tree →
- The bridge is being rebuilt. tree →
note
Irregular past: rebuilt (not "rebuilded"). Prefix re- = again: redo, rewrite, rebuild.
In the corpora
- A caterpillar turns into a butterfly inside a chrysalis, where its body breaks down and is rebuilt.
- Bones are alive, with blood vessels and cells that rebuild them, so a broken bone can heal.
- Lies make trust hard to rebuild once people find out.
- Trust is quick to lose and slow to rebuild; keep telling the truth and it will grow back slowly.
- Trust is quick to lose and slow to rebuild.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rebuild» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.