rewritere‧write /ˌriːˈraɪt/ ●○○ verb (past tense rewrote /-ˈrəʊt $ -ˈroʊt/, past participle rewritten /-ˈrɪtn/) [transitive] 
Verb Table Examples
I’ll have to rewrite most of the essay.—rewrite /ˈriːraɪt/ noun [countable]: Software packages may need complete rewrites to match new hardware.
Verb TableVERB TABLE
rewrite
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | rewrite |
| he, she, it | rewrites | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | rewrote |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have rewritten |
| he, she, it | has rewritten | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had rewritten |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will rewrite |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have rewritten |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am rewriting |
| he, she, it | is rewriting | |
| you, we, they | are rewriting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was rewriting |
| you, we, they | were rewriting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been rewriting |
| he, she, it | has been rewriting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been rewriting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be rewriting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been rewriting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Perhaps you ought to rewrite the first paragraph to make it a little clearer.
- Usually Woodward would do a first draft, then Bernstein would rewrite it.
- Again, the rewriting task will require changing tenses.
- Had Fernand Braudel lived to see this book republished, he would surely have wanted to rewrite it.
- I went to my house in Madrid with Nicolas Roeg, the lighting cameraman, and we worked on rewriting the script.
- Sometimes, without thinking, I almost pick up the pen and start rewriting our campaign literature.
- They decided to rewrite several accounting policies at Iberian.
- They rescued me from my predicament, and saved me the trouble of rewriting the entire chapter.
Longman Language Activatorto change facts or information in a dishonest way► twist
Collocations to dishonestly change the meaning of a piece of information or of something that someone has said, in order to get some advantage for yourself or to support your own opinion: · The lawyers twisted everything I said to make it look as if I was guilty.· Every time I try to talk to him about it, he just twists everything I say.· Write very clearly so that no one can twist your meaning.
► misrepresent to give people a wrong idea about someone or their opinions, by what you write or say: · Your reporter has completely misrepresented my opinions about immigration.· Many women feel that the history books either ignore or misrepresent them.
► distort to explain facts, statements etc in a way that makes them seem different from what they really are: · Newspaper readers are usually given a simplified and often distorted version of events.· These incidents were grossly distorted by police witnesses.distort the truth/the facts: · Journalists were accused of sensationalizing the story and distorting the facts.
► falsify to dishonestly change official documents or records so that they contain false information: · She falsified her birth certificate to get the job.· A whole team was kept busy falsifying official government records.· Their accounts had been falsified over a long period of time
► put words into somebody's mouth to pretend that you think someone has said something that is not what they actually said or meant: · I didn't mean that at all -- you're just putting words into my mouth!· You're putting words into her mouth. You don't know what she thinks.
► cook the books informal to dishonestly change a company's financial records, in order to steal money: · We've just found out Alec's been cooking the books.· The directors of the company made millions from cooking the books before the fraud investigators caught them.
► rewrite history if a government, film company etc rewrites history, it deceives people by pretending that particular historical events did not really happen or that they happened differently: · Hollywood has been accused of rewriting history, by once again denying the role played by African Americans.
to write something again► write out to write something again in a better or more complete way: write something out: · First I think up the basic plot, then I write the story out in more detail.· Find out what is wrong with the example sentences, then write them out correctly.write out something: · I've written out what everyone owes for the phone bill - it's over there.
► rewrite to write something again using different words, or a different style, in order to make it better or more acceptable: · Perhaps you ought to rewrite the first paragraph to make it a little clearer.· The script was rewritten to give it a happier ending.
► write up to write out notes in complete form, making them into full sentences so that they can be read easily later: write up something: · I must write up my history notes tonight.· I think I'm probably ready to start writing up the first part of the study.write something up: · We're trying to get all the results organized, so we can write them up.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► rewrite history
Word family (=change what we believe are the facts about the past)· They're trying to rewrite history to exaggerate their role in the war.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► history· M Lionel Jospin, former Minister of Education, said that it was an astonishing rewrite of history.· Hugo, this rewrites human history!· These fossils, for example, don't rewrite our history but they do illustrate it usefully.· And not betraying the past, either, not rewriting our private history to suit herself.· James's book rather rewrites history when he says that he wanted Niki to think he'd been psyched out.· It is an error to rewrite history to pretend that they did.
► law· It has had to rewrite aspects of law and order in order to gain support for its economic policies.· Also in its wake will follow countless problems in rewriting the law related to marriage and divorce.· None the less, Nutt said, the attention paid this case may be enough to finally force a rewriting of the law.· There is no such thing as a minor rewriting of physical laws.
► rule· The rewrite rule is an effective method of representing the rules of a generative grammar.· Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, failed in their effort to rewrite the rules for legal immigration.· A highly crafted, hugely sophisticated building-machine that rewrites so many rules of conventional corporate architecture is inevitably hard to digest.· But Congress may rewrite those rules in coming months.· Yet what it did not have was the ability to rewrite the rules of economics.
VERB► write· I enjoyed the writing and the rewriting.· Next, create a realistic schedule, including time for researching, writing, and rewriting the material.· He writes and rewrites in long-hand, and endlessly checks for the smallest detail.· At times, you can leisurely assemble your document, writing and rewriting it one day and showing it the next.· I was nervous but determined, and came home to write and rewrite the article a dozen times.· They tried writing and rewriting, each time coming up with dull and wordy expressions.· Ripped through that document in record time, listing, writing, rewriting, and, yes, even showing your message.· My letter was not the sort of letter you spent months writing and rewriting.
WORD FAMILYnounwriterwritingrewriteverbwriterewriteadjectivewritten ≠ unwritten
to change something that has been written, especially in order to improve it, or because new information is available SYN revise: I’ll have to rewrite most of the essay.—rewrite /ˈriːraɪt/ noun [countable]: Software packages may need complete rewrites to match new hardware.