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REWRITING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Editing that involves writing something again
Synonyms:
revising; rewriting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("rewriting" is a kind of...):
editing; redaction (putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rewriting"):
rescript; revisal; revise; revision (the act of rewriting something)
recasting; rephrasing; rewording (changing a particular word or phrase)
Derivation:
rewrite (write differently; alter the writing of)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb rewrite
