rebuilding

English

Verb

rebuilding

1. present participle and gerund of rebuild

Noun

rebuilding (plural rebuildings)

1. The act of building something again.
   • 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: A Much Transformed Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:

     The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.

   • 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 160:

     These have certainly witnessed many events of interest, chief among them, undoubtedly, being the rebuilding of the Bulleid Pacifics.

Translations

act of building again

• Armenian: վերակառուցում (hy) (verakaṙucʿum)
• Finnish: jälleenrakennus
• French: réédification (fr) f
• German: Wiederaufbau (de) m
• Irish: atógáil f

  Old Irish: athchumtach n

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjenoppbygging m or f

  Nynorsk: gjenoppbygging f

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