retread
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Is retread a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of retread?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (chiefly UK) To renew the tread of a tyre, providing a cheaper alternative to buying a new tyre, but potentially introducing a risk of premature failure if performed improperly.Examples: "There was no evidence to suggest that the fact that both tyres had been retreaded 3 times was a factor in the failure occurrence. This type of aircraft tyre (Type VII) is routinely retreaded 6 times or more before being taken out of service."Synonyms: recapUK
noun (English)
1. (military, slang) A person who re-entered military service in World War II after serving in World War I.Examples: "In Our War the Retreads usually slinked in over-aged, over-weight and overcautious in the face of a new generation."; "They were retreads and recruits under a small cadre of Regular Army officers and noncoms."; "We retreads upset everybody."slang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To tread again, to walk along again, to follow a path again.Examples: "As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science. With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists. Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy."transitive
noun (English)
1. (sometimes figurative) A return over ground previously covered; a retraversal or repetition.Examples: "But The West Side Waltz is otherwise a tedious retread of Mr. Thompson's previous effort, On Golden Pond."; "It uses a howitzer to shoot drugged fish in a barrel, inserts flabby lite-surrealism where the comedy might otherwise go and the plot turns out to be a retread of JM Barrie’s stage-play The Admirable Crichton."figurativelysometimes
Definition source: Wiktionary