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rewrite
[ verb ree-rahyt; noun ree-rahyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to write in a different form or manner; revise:
to rewrite the entire book.
- to write again.
- to write (news submitted by a reporter) for inclusion in a newspaper.
noun
- the news story rewritten.
- something written in a different form or manner; revision:
They loved the rewrite, and said it would be a blockbuster!
rewrite
verb
- to write (written material) again, esp changing the words or form
- computing to return (data) to a store when it has been erased during reading
noun
- something rewritten
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Example Sentences
It would take hours more for staff to rewrite their report for higher-ups in D.C.
I recently wrote an entire book about how Thomas Jefferson wanted each generation to rewrite the American Constitution.
Anyway, Gene and I worked very hard and the rewrite took about three months.
If you start the story about your buddy, you better be prepared to rewrite flirty section on the fly.
Accept failure as the essence of process and rewrite your way through it.
I have to-day written 103 and 104, all perfectly wrong, and shall have to rewrite them.
Each of the librri would write and rewrite the portions assigned to him, until the required number of copies had been made.
A younger and more hopeful one saw in it its great elements of popularity, and encouraged him to rewrite it.
Carlyle had to rewrite his book, but his materials remained; his great pictures were all in his mind.
The text is very unsettled, apparently scribes and editors felt themselves free to rewrite it on occasion.
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