reformulate
/ɹifˈɔɹmjəlˌeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Some soft drinks have been reformulated to include less sugar."
- "A narrative circulates at Mitchell, Hall about a naive young employee who, in his eagerness to be creative, "reinvents the wheel," devoting so many hours reformulating work that has already been done that he drives himself into a nervous breakdown."
- "In musicals, when they are not unabashedly revivals, the assumption seems to be all we need do is find appropriate chunks of recent, or not-so-recent, history and cleverly reformulate them. Remakes, re-dos, sequels, prequels, and postquels are all the rage in films, TV, and on the stage."
- "In the present paper this criterion is reformulated in terms of pseudotensorial invariants of the form.."
- "He states and restates, formulates and reformulates, refines and rerefines."
- ""This is now called Skimpflation, which means a manufacturer has reformulated one of its products, usually with cheaper ingredients," says Dworsky, a former Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General in consumer protection."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English formulate English reformulate From re- + formulate.