Past tense of rewrite
irregular verb
The past tense of rewrite is rewrote. The past participle is rewritten.
Forms of rewrite
| Base form (V1) | rewrite /ˈɹiː.ɹaɪt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | rewrote /ɹiːˈɹəʊt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | rewritten /ɹiːˈɹɪt.ən/ |
| Present participle | rewriting |
| Third person singular | rewrites |
Rewrote and rewritten in a sentence
- We rewrote certain communications templates to use a more formal register.From the entry register
- Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.From the entry tell
- I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.From the entry rhyme
- She rewrote the letter to make it sound more lawyerly.From the entry lawyerly
- The endosymbiotic theory, as it came to be known, rewrote the history of life.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 91. From the entry endosymbiotic
Meaning of rewrite
- noun The act of writing again or anew.
- noun Something that has been written again.
- noun The replacement of subterms of a formula with other terms, according to certain rules, by way of transformation.
Verbs like rewrite
Questions about the past tense of rewrite
- What is the past tense of rewrite?
- The past tense of rewrite is rewrote.
- What is the past participle of rewrite?
- The past participle of rewrite is rewritten.
- Is rewrite a regular or irregular verb?
- Rewrite is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rewrite (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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