🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

重新拉紧

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chóngxīn lājǐn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Restretch/ˌriːˈstrɛtʃ/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我们需要把地毯重新拉紧。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To stretch something again, typically to restore its original shape, tension, or size after it has sagged or loosened.

    "The carpet installer had to restretch the living room carpet to remove the wrinkles."
As noun
  1. 1

    An act of stretching something again.

    "The canvas requires a restretch before it can be properly reframed."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English prefix re- (denoting repetition or reversal, originating from Latin) combined with the verb stretch, which traces back to Old English streccan, meaning to extend or make taut. The composite term emerged in industrial and domestic contexts during the 19th century to describe the act of pulling something taut again.

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