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reimagine

/ˌriɪˈmæʤən/
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Other forms: reimagining; reimagined; reimagines

To reimagine is to have a new idea about something familiar. If you've always thought one way about what something means, what it's worth, or how it could be made — but now you see it differently — you've begun to reimagine it.

Perhaps you can't imagine your piano lessons ever being worth your time. But if you go to a concert and listen to your favorite pop artist jamming on the keyboard, you might reimagine their value! A young child might make up a silly story about a rhinoceros who wants to be a mouse. As an adult writer, that former child may reimagine the story into a fable about how a rhinoceros learns to understand his own worth rather than longing to be different.

Definitions of reimagine
  1. verb
    have a new or different thought about something, like the meaning of a poem or an original way to approach a subject or project
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