recarve

present singular third person recarves · participle present recarving · participle past recarved · past recarved

1. transitiveTo carve again or into a new form.

   The U.S., England and France redrew the map of Europe and recarved Germany in a way that was designed to arouse natural hatreds and pit peoples against each other in order to preclude internationalist working-class solidarity.

   2004 July 1, Leslie Feinberg, “Sexual freedom vs. fascism in Germany”, in Workers World

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   He speaks about working with craftsmen to recarve both wood and plaster at the New Amsterdam Theater, and he is the project manager for the Theater for a New Audience, which is planned for a site near the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

   2008 March 2, Tracie Rozhon, “Preserving the Best of the Old”, in New York Times