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rewriting history

rewriting history is the present participle and gerund of rewrite history.

Meaning of rewrite history

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.

Questions about rewriting history

What is rewriting history the present participle and gerund of?
Rewriting history is the present participle and gerund of rewrite history.

Words near rewriting history in the dictionary

  1. rewriter
  2. rewriters
  3. rewrites
  4. rewrites history
  5. rewriting
  6. rewriting history
  7. rewritings
  8. rewritten
  9. rewritten history
  10. rewrote
  11. rewrote history

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rewriting history (page history and authors); 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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