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# redecorate

«redecorate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make it look new again by painting walls, putting up…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (redecorate, redecorates, redecorated, redecorating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To redecorate a room or house is to make it look new again by painting walls, putting up new wallpaper or changing the curtains and furniture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redecorate/#m1)

2) (informal, joking) To «redecorate» can mean to make a big mess, like a toddler spreading food over the walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redecorate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life families redecorate bedrooms, classrooms get redecorated in the holidays. In maths problems it comes with area: how much paint or wallpaper is needed, and how much it costs. Phrases: «redecorate the bedroom», «redecorate in blue».

### examples

- We are going to redecorate my bedroom in green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redecorate/#x1)
- The classroom was redecorated over the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redecorate/#x2)
- Dad spent the weekend redecorating the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redecorate/#x3)
- To redecorate the wall, which is 4 m by 3 m, we need paint for 12 square metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redecorate/#x4)
- Gran redecorated the spare room for the new baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redecorate/#x5)
- The baby redecorated the floor with his porridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redecorate/#x6)
- They saved up for months to redecorate the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redecorate/#x7)

### note

re- means «again». Drop the e before -ing: redecorating. In UK English «decorate» alone often means paint and paper a room. In maths, redecorating questions usually need area (length × width) and sometimes subtraction for doors and windows.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «redecorate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/redecorate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.