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verb | noun paraphraseparaphrase1 /ˈpærəˌfreɪz/ ●●○ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEparaphrase |
Present | I, you, we, they | paraphrase | | he, she, it | paraphrases | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | paraphrased | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have paraphrased | | he, she, it | has paraphrased | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had paraphrased | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will paraphrase | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have paraphrased |
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Present | I | am paraphrasing | | he, she, it | is paraphrasing | | you, we, they | are paraphrasing | Past | I, he, she, it | was paraphrasing | | you, we, they | were paraphrasing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been paraphrasing | | he, she, it | has been paraphrasing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been paraphrasing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be paraphrasing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been paraphrasing |
eng. lang. arts to express in a shorter or clearer way what someone has written or said: The article only paraphrased his comments; it didn’t quote him directly. verb | noun paraphraseparaphrase2 ●●○ noun [countable] ETYMOLOGYparaphrase2Origin: 1500-1600 French Latin, from Greek, from paraphrazein to paraphrase eng. lang. arts a statement that expresses something that someone has said or written in a shorter, clearer, or different way |