rebuild

«rebuild» in Mova's school dictionary: to build something again after it has been damaged or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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

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

• 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.