rehearseverb
uk/rəˈhɜːs/us/rəˈhɝːs/C1 [ I or T ] to practise a play, a piece of music, etc. in order to prepare it for public performance:
The musicians rehearsed (the symphony) for the concert.
figurative On her way to her interview she silently rehearsed what she would say.
[ T ] formal When someone rehearses a story or an argument, they repeat it with all the details:
These are arguments that I've heard rehearsed at meetings many times before.
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- She's rehearsing for a play she's doing.
- I'm rehearsing with my choir tonight.
- We'd rehearsed so many times we were sick of the show before we'd started.
- His mother rehearsed his lines with him and by the time the play opened he was word perfect.
- We rehearsed each scene over and over.
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- set
- setting
- special effect
- stage
- staging
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