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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



... abandoned it. In the twenty remaining years of his life he did nothing to it, and we have Mr Streatfeild's word for it that 'he professed himself dissatisfied with it as a whole, and always intended to rewrite, or at any rate, to revise it.' We could have deduced as much from his refusal to publish the book. The certainty of commercial failure never deterred Butler from publication; he was in the happy situation of being able to publish at his own expense a ...
— Aspects of Literature • J. Middleton Murry

... is, too, the endless poll-parrotting that goes on: each new philosopher must prove his learning by laboriously rehearsing the ideas of all previous philosophers.... Nietzsche avoided both faults. He always assumed that his readers knew the books, and that it was thus unnecessary to rewrite them. And, having an idea that seemed to him to be novel and original, he stated it in as few words as possible, and then shut down. Sometimes he got it into a hundred words; sometimes it took a thousand; ...
— The Antichrist • F. W. Nietzsche

... good, but all I got was a 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 ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various

... ask you to rewrite that last page," she said regretfully. "Send your description of Diamond Row, just as it is, and the agent's refusal to do anything to better it, but leave out the personal tirade that follows. It may relieve your feelings but it will ...
— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston

... essays, and have often found these little compositions sparkling with pleasing information, or full of that childlike fun which is characteristic of the author. I have marked the errors in these exercises, and have given them back to the children to rewrite. Sometimes the second papers show careful correction-and sometimes the mistakes are partially neglected. Very often the child wishes to improve on the first composition, and so adds new blunders as well as creates ...
— Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers • John Burroughs


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