reconfigure

verb

re·​con·​fig·​ure (ˌ)rē-kən-ˈfi-gyər 

 especially British  -ˈfi-gə

reconfigured; reconfiguring; reconfigures

transitive verb

: to rearrange (something) into an altered form, figure, shape, or layout : to configure (something) again or in a new way

Back in the business end of the airplane, built-in features allow the single loadmaster to reconfigure the cargo bay for different types of loads in under an hour in flight.

—Richard DeMeis

Neuroimaging suggested that his brain had essentially reconfigured itself—surviving neurons bypassed dead ones and forged new connections to one another.

—Jeneen Interlandi

Examples of reconfigure in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Rooms are constantly reconfigured and furniture moved to do tastings, private dinners and all sorts of small special events. —Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025

And also yours to squander, to take apart and reconfigure, even to lose. —A.o. Scott, New York Times, 2 May 2025

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the carrier hollowed out passenger planes and reconfigured them into cargo freighters. —Mike Valerio, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025

Then God spoke to him, and the bones reconfigured into skeletons, the skeletons filled out with flesh, and the wind began to blow toward them from all directions. —Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reconfigure

• configure
• disfigure
• prefigure
• figure