What does redid mean?
“Redid” is the past tense of “redo,” a verb meaning to perform or do something again. It often implies that the first attempt was unsatisfactory, faulty, or abandoned, although it can also mean that a task was deliberately repeated for another reason. For example, a designer may “redid” a layout, while a laboratory may “redid” an experiment after finding an error in the procedure. The word belongs to ordinary English in both formal and informal registers and is not restricted to a particular region. Its principal grammatical feature is irregularity: although its past tense is “redid,” its past participle is “redone.” Together with forms such as “redoing” and “redoes,” it belongs to a small but familiar word family centered on the idea of doing something once more.
verbThe past-tense form of redo, meaning to do or perform something again.
- To do or perform something again, typically in order to improve it, correct it, or start it over.
"The editor redid the final paragraph because the original wording was unclear."
"They redid the experiment after discovering that one of the samples had been contaminated."
"After the power cut, the station redid the announcement in a calmer voice."
“Redid” looks like an ordinary past-tense verb, but its past participle takes an irregular form: “redone.”
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Where does redid come from?
The form belongs to the English verb “redo,” formed from the prefix “re-,” meaning again, and the verb “do.” “Redid” follows the normal past-tense formation of “do,” whereas the past participle “redone” is irregular. Words such as “deed,” “indeed,” and “undo” belong to the wider English word family associated with “do.”
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How redid is actually used
This is an irregular past-tense form; the corresponding past participle is “redone.” It is common in both formal and informal contexts.