Repen

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To rewrite. transitive

    "[…] for this talented and unscrupulous cheat played double as before, accepting the hush-money, and then going to press, once, twice, thrice, and yet again, with her memoirs, penned and repenned in perpetually new and more fabulous forms."

Example

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"[…] for this talented and unscrupulous cheat played double as before, accepting the hush-money, and then going to press, once, twice, thrice, and yet again, with her memoirs, penned and repenned in perpetually new and more fabulous forms."

Etymology

From re- + pen.

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