rephrasing
rephrasing is the present participle and gerund of rephrase.
Meaning of rephrase
Verb
rephrase (third-person singular simple present rephrases, present participle rephrasing, simple past and past participle rephrased)
- To say or write something with different wording.
- Make sure to rephrase your thesis in your conclusion.
Noun
rephrasing (plural rephrasings)
- Something differently phrased.
- Emanuel’s version was already blander — and later rephrasings have inevitably become more so.2009 August 2, Jack Rosenthal, “A Terrible Thing to Waste”, in New York Times
Forms of rephrasing
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Questions about rephrasing
- What does rephrasing mean?
- Rephrasing means something differently phrased.
- What is rephrasing the present participle and gerund of?
- Rephrasing is the present participle and gerund of rephrase.
- What part of speech is rephrasing?
- Rephrasing is a noun.
- What is the plural of rephrasing?
- The plural of rephrasing is rephrasings.
Words near rephrasing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rephrasing (page history and authors); rephrase (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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