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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise.
  • intransitive verb To put (material submitted to a newspaper or magazine) in a form suitable for publishing.
  • intransitive verb Computers To save (a usually altered file) over its most recent version in the same storage location.
  • intransitive verb To make revisions in written material.
  • noun The act or an instance of rewriting.
  • noun Something rewritten.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To write a second time.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To write again.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of writing again or anew.
  • noun Something that has been written again.
  • verb To write again, differently (to modify).
  • verb To write again (without changing).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb write differently; alter the writing of
  • noun something that has been written again
  • verb rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose

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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

re- +‎ write

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