reconceive
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reconceive (third-person singular simple present reconceives, present participle reconceiving, simple past and past participle reconceived)
- To conceive something in a new way
- 2001, Don DeLillo, The Body Artist, page 77:
- It is a kind of time that is simply and overwhelmingly there, laid out, unoccurring, and he lacks the inborn ability to reconceive this condition.
- 2009 January 16, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Tradition and Change Battle on the Mall”, in New York Times[1]:
- Once a bustling thoroughfare, the section of Pennsylvania Avenue that borders the White House has been reconceived as a pedestrian strip paved in granite and protected by guard stations to keep people at a safe distance from the president.