recarve

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Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ carve

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recarve (third-person singular simple present recarves, present participle recarving, simple past and past participle recarved)

  1. (transitive) To carve again or into a new form.
    • 2004 July 1, Leslie Feinberg, “Sexual freedom vs. fascism in Germany”, in Workers World[1]:
      The U.S., England and France redrew the map of Europe and recarved Germany in a way that was designed to arouse natural hatreds and pit peoples against each other in order to preclude internationalist working-class solidarity.
    • 2008 March 2, Tracie Rozhon, “Preserving the Best of the Old”, in New York Times[2]:
      He speaks about working with craftsmen to recarve both wood and plaster at the New Amsterdam Theater, and he is the project manager for the Theater for a New Audience, which is planned for a site near the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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