reuse property in my own owl ontology but change domain/range

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i am currently creating my own ontology, which reuses terms of other ontologies.

this brings me to a simple question: i am wondering, if it is it allowed (or: best practice) to reuse existing terms (for instance ObjectProperties) of other vocabularies, but at the same time change their domains and ranges.

in other words: via redefining/redeclaring external ObjectProperties in my own ontology, i am able to reuse them. at the same time i am thinking about changing its domains/ranges to more specific classes than the original domains/ranges. to be more precise i would change the domain/range to subclasses of the original domain/range.

can i do this?

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reuse property in my own owl ontology but change domain/range