Other forms: remodeled, remodeling, remodelled, remodelling, remodels
To remodel is to change the shape or structure of something. Remodel the kitchen, a remodelled interior, remodel the department.
It is the American word where Britain says do up or refurbish. In biology it is exact and rather wonderful: bone is remodelled continuously, so the skeleton you have now is not the one you had ten years ago.
1verbremodelTo change the shape or structure of something.
“They remodelled the kitchen, knocking down a wall to make one big open space.”
remodel is a changing.
Middle French
modelle
English
model
English, today
remodel
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From re- + model. model Borrowed from Middle French modelle. From Middle French modelle, from roa-oit modello, from Vulgar Latin modellus, diminutive form of modulus (“measure, standard”), diminutive of modus (“measure”); see mode, and compare module, modulus, mould, mold.
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