Meanings
present singular third person redoes · participle present redoing · past redid · participle past redone · alternative re-do
plural redos · alternative re-do
- A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.
Eight years ago, the apartment cost $292,000, and the three redos totaled $48,000, but though he has no plans to sell, he thinks he could get $600,000 for the place today.
2008 June 1, C. J. Hughes, “Where Change Is Underfoot, and Overhead”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰéh₁t
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰédʰeh₁ti
- Proto-Germanic*dōną
- Proto-West Germanic*dōn
- Old Englishdōn
- Middle Englishdon
- Englishdo
- Englishredo
Translations
Bulgarian преправям
- преправям (prepravjam)to do again
Catalan refer
- referto do again
Chinese Mandarin 重做
- 重做 (chóngzuò)to do again
Czech předělat
- předělatto do again
Dutch herdoen
- herdoento do again
Esperanto refari
- refarito do again
Finnish tehdä uudestaan
- tehdä uudestaanto do again
French refaire
- refaireto do again
German wieder tun, wiederholen
- wieder tunto do again
- wiederholento do again
Greek ξανακάνω
- ξανακάνω (xanakáno)to do again
Indonesian mengulang, mengulangi
- mengulangto do again
- mengulangito do again
Italian rifare
- rifareto do again
Japanese やり直す, 再びやる
- やり直す (yarinaosu)to do again
- 再びやる (futatabi yaru)to do again
Lithuanian perdaryti, perdirbti
- perdarytito do again
- perdirbtito do again
Māori tārua, tukurua
- tāruato do again
- tukuruato do again
Polish przerabiać, przerobić
- przerabiaćto do again
- przerobićto do again
Portuguese refazer
- refazerto do again
Russian переде́лывать, переде́лать
- переде́лывать (peredélyvatʹ)to do again
- переде́лать (peredélatʹ)to do again
Scottish Gaelic ath-dhèan
- ath-dhèanto do again
Spanish rehacer, asegundar
- rehacerto do again
- asegundarto do again
- segundarto do again
- refacer (disused)to do again
Swedish göra om
- göra omto do again
Ukrainian переробля́ти, перероби́ти
- переробля́ти (pererobljáty)to do again
- перероби́ти (pererobýty)to do again
Welsh ail-wneud
- ail-wneudto do again
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Anagrams
Cite this entry
redo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redo
“redo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redo. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “redo,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redo.
Source: redo on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.