reinvent

Word family (noun) invention inventiveness inventor (adjective) inventive (verb) invent reinvent (adverb) inventively

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishreinventre‧in‧vent /ˌriːɪnˈvent/ verb [transitive] 1 INVENTto make changes to an idea, method, system etc in order to improve it or make it more modern SYN reform plans to reinvent the American educational system2 → reinvent yourself3 → reinvent the wheel→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusreinvent• The American educational system needs to be reinvented.• He will tell us he is responsible for reinventing government and turning more power back to the states.• But the clothier credited with reinventing menswear in the 1980s faces arguably the most daunting challenge of his career.• Without mentors we have to reinvent the wheel each new generation.• Learning by discovery doesn't mean reinventing the wheel each time you need to move the wagon.• But to make our governments effective again we must reinvent them.• The emphasis can only grow as even large companies are forced to reinvent themselves along more entrepreneurial, internet-enabled lines.

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reinvent

Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they	reinvent
he, she, it	reinvents
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	reinvented
Present perfect
I, you, we, they	have reinvented
he, she, it	has reinvented
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had reinvented
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will reinvent
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have reinvented
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Continuous Form
Present
I	am reinventing
he, she, it	is reinventing
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you, we, they	are reinventing
Past
I, he, she, it	was reinventing
you, we, they	were reinventing
Present perfect
I, you, we, they	have been reinventing
he, she, it	has been reinventing
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been reinventing
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be reinventing
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been reinventing
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