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/rɪrˈaɪt/ /rˈɪrˌaɪt/ Listen

Rewrite

verb

(past rewrote; past part. rewritten; pres. part. rewriting)

Write differently; alter the writing of.

Rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose.

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"Rewrite" Quotes from Famous Books

... intention, by the kindness of the respective Editors, to have reprinted these Essays in their original form. But there was so much to add, to omit, to rearrange, and to join together, that I have found it necessary to rewrite nearly the whole; and thus you will find the present volume ...

— Is Life Worth Living? • William Hurrell Mallock

... to the Bianca scenes it has been expanded and altered. This suggests, most naturally, that the part Shakespeare did not write or answer for in "A Shrew" was merely the Bianca scenes, and that his task in "The Shrew" was to cut out and rewrite the scenes that were not his so as to be unhampered with the disharmony of the two parts of the plot as it appears in ...

— Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies • Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke

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