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rewrite history

rewrite history verb: to give a changed (usually false) account of what has happened in the past.

Verb

rewrite history (third-person singular simple present rewrites history, present participle rewriting history, simple past rewrote history, past participle rewritten history)

  1. To give a changed (usually false) account of what has happened in the past.

Forms of rewrite history

third-person singular presentrewrites history
present participlerewriting history
pastrewrote history
past participlerewritten history

Questions about rewrite history

What does rewrite history mean?
Rewrite history means to give a changed (usually false) account of what has happened in the past.
What part of speech is rewrite history?
Rewrite history is a verb.
What is the past tense of rewrite history?
The past tense of rewrite history is rewrote history.

Words near rewrite history in the dictionary

  1. rewring
  2. rewrit
  3. rewritability
  4. rewritable
  5. rewrite
  6. rewrite history
  7. rewrite man
  8. rewrite men
  9. rewriteable
  10. rewrited
  11. rewriteman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rewrite history (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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