reinvented

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past simple and past participle of

to produce something new that is based on something that already exists:

The story of Romeo and Juliet was reinvented as a Los Angeles gangster movie.

to change your job and/or the way you look and behave so that you seem very different:

reinvent yourself as He's one of those sportsmen who reinvent themselves as TV presenters.

Having reinvented herself as a country singer, she then went on tour with her band.

In the same decade, she reinvented herself as a talk show host.

I wanted to go somewhere where no one knew me and reinvent myself.

He reinvented himself as a journalist-novelist.

His attempts to reinvent himself as a politician failed.