refocus

present singular third person refocuses · present singular third person refocusses · participle present refocusing · participle present refocussing · participle past refocused · past refocused · participle past refocussed · past refocussed

1. intransitiveto focus on something else

   Labour frontbencher Louise Haigh (Shadow Transport Secretary for heaven's sake!) initially lambasted TOCs before the handful of specialist rail commentators fell on her tweets and she changed her tune, refocusing her fire on Government.

   2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3

2. transitiveto change the focus of

   to refocus a microscope

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   These two sets of questions are interrelated in such a way that they often actually work to prevent productive discussion of the movie's politics. Just a few observations might make this point clear, and help to refocus the debate that has surrounded the film since its opening earlier this summer.

   1989 August 12, Phil Harper, “Why It's So Hard To Talk About This Movie”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 5, page 9

3. intransitiveto change one's priorities
4. intransitiveto come back into focus

   Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused.

   1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies