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REHEARSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage in a rehearsal (of)

Synonyms:

practice; practise; rehearse

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "rehearse" is one way to...):

do; execute; perform (carry out or perform an action)

Domain category:

performing arts (arts or skills that require public performance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rehearse"):

walk through (perform in a perfunctory way, as for a first rehearsal)

scrimmage (practice playing (a sport))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They will rehearse the duet

Derivation:

rehearsal (a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert))

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 Context examples: 

She did not believe they had yet rehearsed it, even in private.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I came to rehearse.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny did not share her aunt's composure: she thought of the morrow a great deal, for if the three acts were rehearsed, Edmund and Miss Crawford would then be acting together for the first time; the third act would bring a scene between them which interested her most particularly, and which she was longing and dreading to see how they would perform.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I am not very sanguine as to our play, said Miss Crawford, in an undervoice to Fanny, after some consideration; and I can tell Mr. Maddox that I shall shorten some of his speeches, and a great many of my own, before we rehearse together.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He too had his book, and was seeking Fanny, to ask her to rehearse with him, and help him to prepare for the evening, without knowing Miss Crawford to be in the house; and great was the joy and animation of being thus thrown together, of comparing schemes, and sympathising in praise of Fanny's kind offices.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They must now rehearse together.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I came here to-day intending to rehearse it with Edmund—by ourselves—against the evening, but he is not in the way; and if he were, I do not think I could go through it with him, till I have hardened myself a little; for really there is a speech or two.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She knew, also, that poor Mr. Rushworth could seldom get anybody to rehearse with him: his complaint came before her as well as the rest; and so decided to her eye was her cousin Maria's avoidance of him, and so needlessly often the rehearsal of the first scene between her and Mr. Crawford, that she had soon all the terror of other complaints from him.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)