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rewritten history

rewritten history is the past participle 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 rewritten history

What is rewritten history the past participle of?
Rewritten history is the past participle of rewrite history.

Words near rewritten history in the dictionary

  1. rewrites history
  2. rewriting
  3. rewriting history
  4. rewritings
  5. rewritten
  6. rewritten history
  7. rewrote
  8. rewrote history
  9. rewrought
  10. rews
  11. Rewson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rewritten 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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