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rewrite
[ree-rahyt, 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
Other 51Թ Forms
- rewriter noun
Example Sentences
Things began to come to a head with “Don’t Worry Baby,” Wilson’s thinly veiled rewrite of The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby,” which he considered to be pop’s finest moment.
He doesn’t just distract – he rewrites the story in real time, making the serious seem trivial, and the trivial seem epochal.
Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur - in the collection of a Mongolian museum - that they say "rewrites" the evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs.
"You could have the courage to rewrite history and give a family that peace that's been denied," he said.
If they have a face turn towards the good, they get rewritten as people who have empathy — not narcissists at all, just people with high but non-disordered levels of self-centeredness.
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