remold

verb

re·mold (ˌ)rē-ˈmōld

variants US remold or chiefly British remould

remolded; remolding

transitive verb

: to mold (something or someone) again : reshape

heat used to remold plastic

… the idea that humans can be remoulded by their environment …—

Ed West

A once preppy college is remolding itself, and today almost 25 percent of the students … are minorities.—

S. Reeves

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They were remolded into clear urethane, inserted into her fiberglass understructure, and painted. —

Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024 They are reimagined and remolded to connect with how Overbey feels at this point in his life, in his late 50s. —

Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 5 Aug. 2024 Just as glass and metal can be melted down and remolded into new products, synthetic fabrics like polyester can be melted into plastic pellets and turned back into fibers. —

Nicolás Rivero, Washington Post, 5 July 2024 In spite of its melodramatic structure, which the film’s producers applied as a way to remold its timely, social-realist subject matter, the film slyly sidesteps generic formulas and flies in the face of feminine heroine archetypes. —

Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 1 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for remold