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rephrase

verbattested in dialogue

  • United States

To say or write something with different wording.

verb

  1. 1

    To say or write something with different wording.

    Make sure to rephrase your thesis in your conclusion.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English phrase English rephrase From re- + phrase.

Forms

past tense
rephrased
past participle
rephrased
present participle
rephrasing
third person singular
rephrases
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).