noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Something differently phrased.

   "Emanuel’s version was already blander — and later rephrasings have inevitably become more so."

2. 2
   changing a particular word or phrase wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of rephrase form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

paraphraserecastingrewordingrewording

Example

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"Rephrasing is a collective art at Tatoeba."

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