REDRAW Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

redraw

verb

Definition of redraw

as in to rewrite

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Recent Examples of redraw But before the bond hits the ballot, district officials wanted to redraw its boundaries and identify projects that could be accomplished without requesting a tax increase from voters. — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026 Democratic attempts to redraw maps in Virginia and New York were thwarted in the courts. — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026 The fallcation began as an escape from the heat and crowds of high summer, but its longer-term effect may be to redraw the entire travel calendar. — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026 The Woodland School District is making plans to redraw boundaries for the city’s elementary, middle and high schools for the first time in more than 25 years in order to balance enrollment numbers between campuses. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for redraw

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The seismic loss of Helen McCrory led to the final season being rewritten.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
Congress had written the exclusion around designation, and the court said only Congress could rewrite it around use.

— John Mildenberger, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of rewrite

Verb

Those projections were revised down (and revised down again) after a deluge of bad buzz.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026
Insights like ours are revising researchers’ understanding of both the past and how people operate today, as inequality grows globally.

— Christopher von Rueden, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of revise

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Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Chinese leaders under Deng were able to kickstart China’s era of rapid growth through rural reforms that completely reworked Maoist economic orthodoxy.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
The Tibb reworks an ’80s sleeveless gilet (very Marty McFly).

— Luke Leitch, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of rework

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Going forward, the audit asks the Legislature to amend state law to provide clear instruction that prohibits state workers from regularly teleworking outside of California.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
But the city’s Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee on Tuesday amended the map to remove portions of the 3rd District — which is the district the Chiefs and Royals are leaving for their new stadiums.

— Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of amend

Verb

Producers had been looking to rectify this, per our sources, since Ego Nwodim’s surprise exit in the fall of 2025.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026
The museum closure is part of new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s attempts to rectify his predecessor, Viktor Orbán’s, control of state media and arts and culture entities.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of rectify

Verb

Repeatable return could help Exobiosphere shorten experimental cycles and advance promising findings toward practical applications.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Potentially lifesaving and cost-saving decisions to shorten courses, redistribute staff, streamline, or expand resources could come from quantified inputs, in conjunction with prior experience.

— Vibhu Krishna, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of shorten

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In addition to easing federal regulations, the bill also encourages states and cities to reform their land-use rules, which would mark a significant change in the federalist system with respect to city planning.

— Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026
To continue Francis' push to reform the Vatican bureaucracy, the Curia.

— Scott Detrow, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026

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