Word family noun invention inventiveness inventor adjective inventive verb invent reinvent adverb inventively
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishreinventre‧in‧vent /ˌriːɪnˈvent/ verb [transitive] 1 INVENTto make changes to an idea, method, system etc in order to improve it or make it more modern SYN reform plans to reinvent the American educational system2 → reinvent yourself3 → reinvent the wheel→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
reinvent• The American educational system needs to be reinvented.• He will tell us he is responsible for reinventing government and turning more power back to the states.• But the clothier credited with reinventing menswear in the 1980s faces arguably the most daunting challenge of his career.• Without mentors we have to reinvent the wheel each new generation.• Learning by discovery doesn't mean reinventing the wheel each time you need to move the wagon.• But to make our governments effective again we must reinvent them.• The emphasis can only grow as even large companies are forced to reinvent themselves along more entrepreneurial, internet-enabled lines. 