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REBUILDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rebuilding mean?
• REBUILDING (noun)
The noun REBUILDING has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: REBUILDING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Building again
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rebuilding" is a kind of...):
reconstruction (the activity of constructing something again)
Derivation:
rebuild (build again)
Context examples
There are many kinds of bone problems: • Low bone density and osteoporosis, which make your bones weak and more likely to break • Osteogenesis imperfecta makes your bones brittle • Paget's disease of bone makes them weak • Bone disease can make bones easy to break • Bones can also develop cancer and infections • Other bone diseases are caused by poor nutrition, genetic factors or problems with the rate of bone growth or rebuilding
(Bone Diseases, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
It is a promising technique for management on a local basis but needs to be combined with habitat restoration and other conservation measures; rebuilding fish communities with the help of playbacks might accelerate ecosystem recovery but is not enough alone.
(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)
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