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means To perform an action again, especially one you just undid, or to do something over because the first attempt failed.

from Simply the prefix 're-' (again, back) plus 'do,' both ancient and plain. 'Re-' comes from Latin, meaning repetition or backward motion; 'do' traces to Old English 'don,' one of the oldest verbs in the language. No clever twist here — 'redo' is as literal as compounds get, though it only became a dedicated command-and-button word in the computing era, paired with 'undo' as its necessary other half.