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Rewrite   /rɪrˈaɪt/  /rˈɪrˌaɪt/   Listen
Rewrite

verb
(past rewrote; past part. rewritten; pres. part. rewriting)
1.
Write differently; alter the writing of.
2.
Rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose.
noun
1.
Something that has been written again.  Synonyms: rescript, revision.



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"Rewrite" Quotes from Famous Books



... Control of the Constitution," said the Hatter. "I'll make it Constitutional if I have to rewrite the whole blessed ...
— Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream • John Kendrick Bangs

... one was scratched out and rewritten. There were now three unsightly blots on the letter and she hovered over them a moment, her pride demanding that she should make a clean, fair copy. But it seemed such an endless task to rewrite it from beginning to end, that she finally decided to send ...
— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston

... end in different ways; but my own belief is that, in writing, one cannot do much by correction. I believe that the best way to arrive at lucidity is by incessant practice; we must be content to abandon and sacrifice faulty manuscripts altogether; we ought not to fret over them and rewrite them. The two things that I have found to be of infinite service to myself, in learning to write prose, have been keeping a full diary, and writing poetry. The habit of diarizing is easily acquired, ...
— From a College Window • Arthur Christopher Benson

... high powered bawling out. He said that he would talk to you or no one and would just as soon talk to no one as to me any longer. Then he hung up. You'd better take a run out to Calvada and see what he has to say. I can have a good man rewrite your drivel ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various

... signature reproduced by the photo-engraving process, separately each time. But before long, several letters came back to him rubber-stamped: "Not passable. Please revise." It took Benda two days to cool down and rewrite the first letter. But outwardly no one would have ever known that there was anything amiss ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various


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