Retread

Quick meaning: Retread is a verb meaning To replace the traction-providing surface of a vehicle that employs tires, tracks or treads.

Meaning

To replace the traction-providing surface of a vehicle that employs tires, tracks or treads.

More Meanings

1. A used tire whose surface, the tread, has been replaced to extend its life and use.
2. (military, slang) A person who re-entered military service in World War II after serving in World War I.
3. (transitive) To tread again, to walk along again, to follow a path again.
4. (sometimes figurative) A return over ground previously covered; a retraversal or repetition.
5. (chiefly UK) To renew the tread of a tyre, providing a cheaper alternative to buying a new tyre, but potentially introducing a risk of premature failure if performed improperly.

Example Sentences

We retreads upset everybody.

They were retreads and recruits under a small cadre of Regular Army officers and noncoms.

But The West Side Waltz is otherwise a tedious retread of Mr. Thompson's previous effort, On Golden Pond.

In Our War the Retreads usually slinked in over-aged, over-weight and overcautious in the face of a new generation.

Word Forms

• retreads
• retreading
• retreaded
• retrod
• retrodden
• re-tread

Synonyms for retread

Depending on context, synonyms include recap, remould, make over, rework, remold.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include recap, make over, remold, remould, rework, rebed.

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