re-write

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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.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Origin:
1560–70; re- + write

Related forms

re·writ·er, noun

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rewrite

—vb , -writes, -writing, -wrote, -written
1.	to write (written material) again, esp changing the words or form
2.	computing to return (data) to a store when it has been erased during reading

—n
3.	something rewritten

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rewrite

"to write again," 1567, from re- "back, again" + write (q.v.). Journalistic rewrite man is recorded from 1901.

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