rephrasev.
/ˌriːˈfreɪz/, U.S. /riˈfreɪz/ transitive. To put into different words; to express in an alternative way. Also figurative. Also intransitive.
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1882 Era 11 Mar. 3/4 The burlesque extravaganza The Forté Thieves Played Piano ‘transposed and rephrased expressly for this entertainment’.
1895 W. B. Carpenter Lect. Preaching 180 The thing..often needs to be translated and rephrased.
1937 J. Thurber Lett. (2002) 246 The way you prove the singular usage here is to rephrase it this way: ‘None of them is usable even though I have found them.’
1949 M. Mead Male & Female viii. 176 The extreme ingenuity with which man has rephrased his own physiology.
1987 G. Cirino-Gerena in M. E. Ware & R. J. Millard Handbk. Student Devel. ii. 43/1 Other popular strategies [in answering essay tests] have to do with the ability to write extensively and rephrase.
2003 National Post (Canada) 20 May al 3/3 Chatbots use tricks such as rephrasing a question, digression and other tactics to simulate a human conversation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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