remaneuver

present singular third person remaneuvers · participle present remaneuvering · participle past remaneuvered · past remaneuvered

1. To maneuver again, especially when the maneuver is to change or correct the result of the previous maneuver.

   He ground his tractor into reverse and backed away from the blower faster than he usually did, backing the eighteen-foot-long , ten-ton load to a point where he could remaneuver and come in correctly.

   1992, Karen Kringle, Vital Ties: A Novel, page 246

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   Maude Purvis was the granddaughter of an American Southern gentleman, Robert Louis Earle Purvis, who somehow mismaneuvered himself into association with the Yankees during the Civil War and quickly thereafter remaneuvered himself to distant Batavia where he found a happy and prosperous haven .

   1956, American Universities Field Staff, Fieldstaff Reports: Southeast Asia series - Volumes 4-6, page 6

   Like all the push plates in the building (e.g., at the bathrooms and at the guard desk) , this plate is along the accessible path so the person using it does not have to detour to reach it or remaneuver his or her wheelchair after using it to get to the door.

   1993, William L. Lebovich, Design for Dignity: Studies in Accessibility, page 187

   At one particularly bad moment, I was clinging with two fingers and a toe to a wall with no other visible holds, and Ross was so far above me, and the wind was so strong, that he never heard me shouting, and then all-out screaming, for him to let some slack into the rope so I could remaneuver.

   2016, Rachel Starnes, The War at Home, page 126

plural remaneuvers

1. An instance of remaneuvering.

   The whole idea behind these Saturday maneuvers and remaneuvers is to build strength and endurance.

   2010, Shane Borrowman, Stuart Brown, Thomas Miller, Renewing Rhetoric's Relation to Composition

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   Timothy belatedly thought to ask, for no reason at all that he could think of, asked of no one in particular, as if he had been delayed, his life delayed by multiplying introductions to life, but Philly Morris and Gloria Dehaven had abruptly turned their considerable backs, pretending, as a sudden, surprising remaneuver, perhaps, to ignore Timothy, to leave him awash in introductions, thereby foreclosing any introduction at all to the people of Anybodys.

   1996, Robert Eaton Kelley, The First Book of Timothy, page 236