RESIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resize mean? 

• RESIZE (verb)
  The verb RESIZE has 1 sense:

1. change the size of; make the size more appropriate

  Familiarity information: RESIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they resize    ... he / she / it resizes   
Past simple: resized   
Past participle: resized   
-ing form: resizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change the size of; make the size more appropriate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "resize" is one way to...):

size (make to a size; bring to a suitable size)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "resize"):

rescale (establish on a new scale)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something