rebuild

[ ree-bild ]

/ riˈbɪld /

to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.

to replace, restrengthen, or reinforce: to rebuild an army.

to revise, reshape, or reorganize: to rebuild a shattered career.

to build again or afresh: With the insurance money we can rebuild.

Origin of rebuild

First recorded in 1605–15; re- + build

re·build·a·ble, adjective re·build·a·bil·i·ty, noun re·build·er, noun un·re·built, adjective

Law has been rebuilt in the last 50 years to be an instrument of control, not a framework for human responsibility.

Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans |Philip K. Howard |December 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The building had to be rebuilt in 1963 after extensive damage from the Second World War was finally deemed irreparable.

Inside The World’s 10 Oldest Restaurants |Justin Jones |December 20, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The dome could be rebuilt by 2021 if work stays on schedule, according to workers at the site.

Madonna, Carla Bruni & Obama Abandoned Pledges To Rebuild L'Aquila After The Quake |Barbie Latza Nadeau |November 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
No schools, churches or hospitals have been rebuilt yet, though temporary structures are now permanent fixtures on the landscape.

Madonna, Carla Bruni & Obama Abandoned Pledges To Rebuild L'Aquila After The Quake |Barbie Latza Nadeau |November 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

It too had been built back up, and the six or eight tall spindly French summer homes have been rebuilt.

Blood in the Sand: When James Jones Wrote a Grunt’s View of D-Day |James Jones |November 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He rebuilt the fortifications of Megiddo, thus securing the control of the network of roads which traversed Southern Syria.

History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12) |G. Maspero
A few years ago its signboard modestly chronicled the fact that it had been Rebuilt after the Flood.

Old Country Inns of England |Henry P. Maskell
It was of wood, destroyed and swept to sea by a storm; rebuilt, and again destroyed by worms.

Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast |Samuel Adams Drake
As to the upper town, after the conflagration of the last siege, it had been rebuilt in a very indifferent style.

Annals of a Fortress |E. Viollet-le-Duc
She ruled and ordered her household well; she made new roads and rebuilt bridges which had been broken down.

Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) |Various

rebuild

/ (riːˈbɪld) /

to make, construct, or form again the cost of rebuilding the house

(tr) to restore (a system or situation) to a previous condition his struggle to rebuild his life