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readjust

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Word definitions for readjust in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Readjust \Re`ad*just"\ (r[=e]`[a^]d*j[u^]st"), v. t. To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Remember to readjust the mirrors in the car. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Give everybody a chance to readjust , with-out expecting a dramatic welcome. ▪ Many stress-related complaints can be reversed simply by breathing properly ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. adjust anew; "After moving back to America, he had to readjust" [syn: readapt ] adjust again after an initial failure [syn: reset ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. to adjust again

Usage examples of readjust.

When the screen readjusted itself, Verduin saw Akers stagger backward slightly, apparently disoriented by what was coming through his helmet.

I dressed myself in haste, and left the town by the first road that came in my way, and I walked fast for two hours with the intention of tiring myself, and of thus readjusting the balance between mind and body.

The girl readjusted her pointy hat and scowled down at the debris in scorn.

As the eyes of the mortal damsels readjusted, starlight revealed to the visitors all that remained in the roomsome aged candle-stubs and a few heaps of moldy straw strewn about the floor.

Scurv hesitated, his stupid mind requiring time to readjust itself and change from one line of thought to another, but Sloo was quick to see the advantage of utilizing the unwelcome guest and she willing to delay his murder until he had brought back his kill.

My daughter Bee, from my marriage to Tweedy Browner, was just starting seventh grade in a Washington suburb and was having trouble readjusting to life in the States after two years in South Korea.

He watched the Veep adjust and readjust the lenses, as if, even with those to aid him, he could not get a clear sight of the bones of Xcothal.

The architectonic purity of her world was constantly threatened by such hints of anarchy: gaps and excrescences and skew lines, and a shifting or tilting of planes to which she had continually to readjust lest the whole structure shiver into a disarray of discrete and meaningless signals.

Morse found himself quietly re-appraising the man who first beached and then readjusted his vast bulk in an armchair, with a series of expiratory grunts.

He had tested with a milliampere of ion current, cursed, readjusted, tested again, nodded, asked for a full amp, made obscene comments, readjusted, retested, and wondered if he could have done it without Ryerson.

We can replace the light sheaths and radian draws, repair the parse tubes, and readjust the diapson crystals to suit our needs.

Down in the control room Quinton had completed his final checks, readjusting the trimming tanks against the findings on his slide-rule.

And Colonel Starbottle knew this, as, perspiring, florid, and panting, he rebuttoned the lower buttons of his blue frock-coat, which had become loosed in an oratorical spasm, and readjusted his old-fashioned, spotless shirt frill above it as he strutted from the court-room amidst the handshakings and acclamations of his friends.

Muttering to herself, striding along as though she wanted to trample something, she adjusted and readjusted her shawl half a dozen times.

She readjusted the telescopies, and the spiral-shaped hole came into sharp focus.