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/ˌrē-inˈtərprət/,
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reinterpreting, present participle; reinterpreted, past tense; reinterprets, 3rd person singular present; reinterpreted, past participle;
  1. Interpret (something) in a new or different way


  1. interpret from a different viewpoint
  2. assign a new or different meaning to
  3. (Reinterpretation) In the analysis of 18th- and 19th-century Western music, an elision, overlap, or rather reinterpretation (Umdeutung), is the perception, after the fact, of a (metrically weak) cadential chord at the end of one phrase as the (metrically strong) initial chord of the next phrase. ...
  4. (reinterpretation) an unexpected meaning or function of the connector that shatters the target assumption.
  5. (Reinterpretation) The task for these theologians is to reinterpret Christian faith in terms of some contemporary idiom or moral crusade. Rudolf Bultmann’s use of Martin Heidegger’s existentialism to reinterpret the message of the New Testament would be a classic example. ...