Definition of "reinterpret" [reinterpret]

• To interpret again or anew. (verb-transitive)

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• "In public, of course, they would fawn all over him as Canadians still do, and bring him cups of tea as he pours over the diaries of yet another dead American President, who he will then 'reinterpret' for the edification of the rest of the world in yet another heavy, unreadable book."
• "The administration's response was to "reinterpret" the Geneva Conventions in a way that no country has ever done before: they claimed that since their detainees did not represent a nation or an army, the Geneva Conventions simply did not apply to them."
• "Many current and past supreme court justices (William Brennan for example) that are/were defined as liberal, believed that the constitution was theirs to "reinterpret" as the direction of political wind changed and avoid the inconvenience of following the laws established to change it."