redecorating

verb

present participle of redecorate
as in redoing

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  1. redoing
  2. painting
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  • Kidd has been doing some work at Nanea on the Big Island, including redoing the irrigation and a bunker renovation effort, and is excited about the chance to team with the Areté Collective to reimagine one of Hawaii’s older courses.
    — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The city, state and RTD just spent hundreds of millions of dollars and almost a decade redoing the mall based entirely around the running of fast and frequent free buses through the heart of downtown.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 24 July 2026
Definition of redoing
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  • By the late 1960s, Kusama had also turned herself into material, staging happenings, body-painting events, naked demonstrations, and antiwar actions.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
  • To begin with, the seventeenth-century French academic opposition of painting to sculpture assigns painting to sight and sculpture to touch—to sensation achieved through physical contact.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
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