remaneuver

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Definition of remaneuver

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

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

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

noun

  1. An instance of remaneuvering.
    “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.”
    “The whole idea behind these Saturday maneuvers and remaneuvers is to build strength and endurance.”

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Etymology

From re- + maneuver.

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