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rename

/ riːˈneɪm /

verb

  1. to change the name of (someone or something)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Expect a movement pressuring CBS to rename it “The David Letterman Theater,” but then, that would be mean to Ed.

Dr. Betty Shabazz worked with Mayor Edward Koch to rename Lenox Avenue in Harlem, to Malcolm X Boulevard.

Instead, the chamber found time to rename 60 post-office branches and attempted to repeal the health-care law for the 33rd time.

Another was an offer to rename a suite "the Warlock Room" in his honor.

It required neither time nor confectionery to enable these two members of the family to rename the third.

During the siege, the people wished to entirely destroy the palace and rename the place the Piazza dei Muli.

If we only could rename it, she answered, I certainly would find a pretty Indian name.

Uncommon nonsense about the war—so we must rename Mr. Shaw's production!

Suppose we do rename them, we shall have to explain that they are the old pecans under the new names.

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