reconceive

present singular third person reconceives · participle present reconceiving · participle past reconceived · past reconceived

1. To conceive something in a new way

   It is a kind of time that is simply and overwhelmingly there, laid out, unoccurring, and he lacks the inborn ability to reconceive this condition.

   2001, Don DeLillo, The Body Artist, page 77

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   Once a bustling thoroughfare, the section of Pennsylvania Avenue that borders the White House has been reconceived as a pedestrian strip paved in granite and protected by guard stations to keep people at a safe distance from the president.

   2009 January 16, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Tradition and Change Battle on the Mall”, in New York Times