remaking

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Verb

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remaking

  1. present participle and gerund of remake

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remaking (plural remakings)

  1. Re-creation; reconstruction.
    Synonyms: rebuild, rebuilding, remake, remanufacture
    Coordinate term: reboot
    • 2005, David Martin, On Secularization: Towards a Revised General Theory, page x:
      Christian 'incursions', the attempted remakings of the world to conform to the Gospel, stand themselves in perpetual danger of being or becoming also remakings of the Gospel to fit the world.
    • 2012, Philippe Met, “The Iceman Cometh (To A Theater Near You): Michael Haneke's Glaciation Trilogy”, in Claire Perkins, Constantine Verevis, editors, Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 164:
      If one then turns to the logic of remaking and sequelization/prequelization, it is hardly disputable that it tends to be dictated by marketing ploys, commercial opportunism or production pressures.

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