(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
To ~ something means to change it so that it seems different and new.
They have tried to ~ their retail stores...
He was determined to ~ himself as a poet and writer.
VERB: V n, V pron-refl
~ion
...a ~ion of the styles of the 1940s.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If someone is trying to ~ the wheel, they are trying to do something that has already been done successfully.
Some of these ideas are worth pursuing, but there is no need to ~ the wheel.
PHRASE: V inflects