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reinterpret

vb. To interpret again.

WordNet
reinterpret
  1. v. interpret from a different viewpoint [syn: re-explain]

  2. assign a new or different meaning to

Usage examples of "reinterpret".

They have reinterpreted long-standing policies to limit government authority and to facilitate polluter projects.

The superconscious is reduced to the subconscious, the transpersonal is collapsed to the prepersonal, the emergence of the higher is reinterpreted as an irruption from the lower.

What ensues is a well documented account of the elimination of sectarianism from the American school system which is reinterpreted as a fight for the secularization of public supported education.

To expect the mainstream to radically reinterpret itself for the sake of transgenderist ideology is the sort of conceit typical of a member of any minority.

As we discussed in Chapter 12, the dualities underlying the unity of the five string theories show us that physical processes that occur in any one string formulation can be reinterpreted in the dual language of any of the others.

Zoroastrian dualism, the same arrogant assumption that the Goddess could be banished, when all that was banished was a poorly differentiated mythos that many ecofeminists have severely reinterpreted to fit their ideology.

The Founders had left sketches and paintings and descriptions, however, which had been reinterpreted by generations of artists.

The superconscious is reduced to the subconscious, the transpersonal is collapsed to the prepersonal, the emergence of the higher is reinterpreted as an irruption from the lower.

Christian tradition, which once supported political absolutism, was reinterpreted to accept the democratic ideal.

Vague discomfort in certain parts of the body is reinterpreted as childhood rape.

Aille had defied him by subtly reinterpreting his orders, but he could not have acted otherwise.

Since Jeremy wouldn't have sugarcoated my arrangement, Clay had obviously reinterpreted the facts through his own filter of logic, a logic as indecipherable as his code of behavior and ethics.

Fleming] that sales managers must now take into account is that some policy followed today in the light of the best legal opinion may next year be reinterpreted as illegal.

He even manages to reinterpret Occam's razor, the philosophical principle that explanations should be kept as simple as possible, to support his view.

He'd routed a lot of sensor readings to his holographic panes, where analysis routines were reinterpreting the raw data.