Definitions

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  • verb transitive To carve again or into a new form.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ carve

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Examples

  • Still, few in the American international affairs community ever speak about the fundamental need to recarve up the world map, providing states to a much broader array of currently stateless nations.

    Christopher Tucker: What Americans Can Do About the End of Their Ruling Days Christopher Tucker 2011

  • Still, few in the American international affairs community ever speak about the fundamental need to recarve up the world map, providing states to a much broader array of currently stateless nations.

    Christopher Tucker: What Americans Can Do About the End of Their Ruling Days Christopher Tucker 2011

  • The fissured Corinthian capital, which she was carving last week, could be recycled by removing part of its central section, thus reducing its height and making it feasible to recarve it as one of the capitals with smaller dimensions (their heights vary up to nearly 10 cm).

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 8 2003

  • Still, few in the American international affairs community ever speak about the fundamental need to recarve up the world map, providing states to a much broader array of currently stateless nations.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Christopher Tucker 2011

  • “You’ll have to recarve the faces of the angels on the Angelus,” I told him, and he laughed.

    Remember Me, Irene Jan Burke 1996

  • One publisher got it and then wanted -- it was this Southern gentleman I told you about -- then wanted to redirect it, wanted to recarve it, wanted to say, "No, I don't want it written like this.

    Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994

  • i invite you to use this space, to sketch your thoughts and obervations about this moment …. and your ideas for how to recarve the revolutionary road. war on terror ..

    Kasama 2008

  • i invite you to use this space, to sketch your thoughts and obervations about this moment …. and your ideas for how to recarve the revolutionary road. war on terror ..

    Kasama 2008

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