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repen

repen verb: to rewrite.

Verb

repen (third-person singular simple present repens, present participle repenning, simple past and past participle repenned)

  1. (transitive) To rewrite.
    • […] for this talented and unscrupulous cheat played double as before, accepting the hush-money, and then going to press, once, twice, thrice, and yet again, with her memoirs, penned and repenned in perpetually new and more fabulous forms.1933, Stefan Zweig, translated by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, London: Cassell and Company, page 197

Forms of repen

third-person singular presentrepens
present participlerepenning
past participlerepenned
pastrepenned
alternative formre-pen

Origin of repen

From re- + pen.

Questions about repen

What does repen mean?
Repen means to rewrite.
What part of speech is repen?
Repen is a verb.
What is the past tense of repen?
The past tense of repen is repenned.

Words near repen in the dictionary

  1. repellingness
  2. repellings
  3. repellor
  4. repellors
  5. repels
  6. repen
  7. repenetrate
  8. repenetrated
  9. repenetrates
  10. repenetrating
  11. repenetration

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