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recarve en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + carve.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To 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:
   • 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:

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