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Definition of rewrite : To write again.

Synonyms:

rescript, edict, printed matter, revise, rephrase, recast, archive, emend, alteration, compress, revision, pack, dramatize, adapt, rework, burn in, access, call up, redraft, delete, amend, rehash, pad, back up, burn, paperwork, fill out, material, emendate, papers, order, append, author, correspondence, documentation, bowdlerize, packet, revisal, capture, decree, change, fiat, edit, cut down, revamp, block, doctor, censor, reword, ephemera, browse, cut, condense

record, ghostwrite, transcribe, write, formulate, portray, correspond, compose

Usage examples:

• I was once so fortunately circumstanced that I was able entirely to rewrite one of my novels, and I have always thought it the best written, or at least indefinitely better than it would have been with a single writing. - "The Editor's Relations With The Young Contributor From "Literature and Life"", William Dean Howells.
• It would have been easy for him to rewrite these pages in other terms, but they appeared to him to be so well suited to the character of Napoleon that he has preferred to preserve them." - "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte", Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton.
• I simply write and rewrite until the perfected manuscript lies before me. - "Dramatic Technique", George Pierce Baker.