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rewrote history

rewrote history is the simple past 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 rewrote history

What is rewrote history the simple past of?
Rewrote history is the simple past of rewrite history.

Words near rewrote history in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rewrote 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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