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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remould
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Mr Gummer should pick up Mr MacSharry's ideas and remould them to meet sensible criteria.
▪ Now surgeons can remould entire bodies by shifting adipose tissue.
▪ Politics constantly tended to take over and remould such pre-political elements for its own purposes.
▪ Thank you that you can remould even my own particular burden of failure.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remould

Remold \Re*mold"\, Remould \Re*mould"\ (r[=e]*m[=o]ld"), v. t. To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.

Remould

Remould \Re*mould"\ (r[=e]*m[=o]ld"), v. t. See Remold.

Wiktionary
remould

vb. 1 (context British English) To mould or shape again. 2 (context British English) To reshape or redesign.

WordNet
remould
  1. v. cast again; "The bell cracked and had to be recast" [syn: recast, remold]

  2. give new treads to (a tire) [syn: retread, remold]

Usage examples of "remould".

There are those who would rather have had Sharp follow the tales as they are told by Campbell of Islay, Cameron of Brodick, and Carmichael of South Uist, but to me, unless the tale is one familiar to many readers, such a remoulding, if done with power, is surely a prerogative of the artist.

The plasticity means that, although individual brain neurons destroyed as a result of a stroke or brain lesion cannot regenerate, at least in adults, the cells around the damaged area do grow and put out more processes, so that there is some compensatory remoulding of the brain.

It was as though it had been remoulded by the hand of God and the hand of Satan, working together and in harmony.

I fancied I heard, even now, a faint echo of that peculiarly sweet and careless laugh, indicating how light were all impressions on a temperament so plastic and weak--so easily remoulded by the very next influence that fate might throw across her perilous way.

James Blatherwick was of such whose sluggish natures require, for the melting of their stubbornness, and their remoulding into forms of strength and beauty, such a concentration of the love of God that it becomes a consuming fire.

The rolling oscillating globe dips it for an aeon in growing sea, lifts it from the sinking waters of its thousand year bath to the furnace of the sun, remodels and remoulds, turns ashes into flowers, and divides mephitis into diamonds and breath.

At first I thought it was strange that Mission Control would have turned down the chance to put The Man into a position where he could have remoulded Jewish religious thought.

So there she floats, switch-off, for at least another four weeks, while Greggy and the Howler equivalent of redactors remould her protoplasm.