"rebuild" meaning in English

See rebuild in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ri'bɪld/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rebuild.wav [UK] Forms: rebuild [canonical], rebuilds [third-person, singular], rebuilt [past], rebuilt [past, participle], rebuilding [present, participle]
Etymology: re- + build Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|re|build}} re- + build Head templates: {{verb2|rebuild|rebuilds|rebuilt|rebuilt|rebuilding}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you rebuild something, you build it again.
    Sense id: simple-rebuild-en-verb-XwP3UKRY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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