rehearse

Verb

rehearse (third-person singular simple present rehearses, present participle rehearsing, simple past and past participle rehearsed)

1. (transitive) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
   • There’s no need to rehearse the same old argument; we’ve heard it before, and we all agree.
2. (transitive) To narrate; to relate; to tell; to recount.
   • The witness rehearsed the events of the night before for the listening detectives.
3. (ambitransitive) To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater.
   • The main actors spent on average two hours a day rehearsing before the first night.
   • The lawyer advised her client to rehearse her testimony before the trial date.
4. (transitive) To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
   • The director rehearsed the cast incessantly in the days leading up to opening night, and as a result they were tired and cranky when it arrived.
   • He […] has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen Her […]1859, Charles Dickens, “Darkness”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (The Track of a Storm), page 231
5. To contrive and carefully prepare (a story, etc.) to offer consistency.
   • The Crown argued that the accused had rehearsed her story.