rewordv.
/ˌriːˈwəːd/, U.S. /riˈwərd/ 1. † b. transitive. poetic. To re-echo (a sound, words). Obsolete.
a. transitive. To put into words again; to say again in words, to repeat.
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the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (transitive)]
doublec1380
naitc1400
reportc1405
repeat1427
renewa1464
iterate1533
resume1535
to run over ——1538
redouble1580
to go over ——1583
re-say1583
reclaim1590
ingeminate1594
reword1604
reassume1631
reutter1632
oversay1639
to fetch over1642
reassert1647
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 134 Bring me to the test, And the matter will reword . View more context for this quotation
1721 T. Gordon Francis, Lord Bacon 3 Like that wooden Head, so celebrated in King Charles the Second's Time, that had a Faculty of rewording whatever its wise Spectators were pleas'd to say to it.
1779 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XIV. 367 He moved that the witness withdraw, and then, in a more calm and collected manner, reworded what he had said, and made a short speech in justification of it.
1885 W. B. Yeats Song of Happy Shepherd in Poems (1899) 186 They thy comforters will be, Rewording in melodious guile Thy fretful words.
1897 in H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson: Mem. anno 1874 II. vi. 159 [Rough copy of letter from Ld. Tennyson] I bolted out a long metaphysical term, which he could not re-word to me.
2001 S. Heaney Electric Light 62 And the poet draws from his word-hoard a weird tale Of a life and a love balked, which I reword here.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > resound [verb (transitive)] > reverberate or echo
answera1425
redoublea1542
rebound1555
return1557
reply1565
report1589
re-echo1595
repercuss?a1597
render1598
reverberate1603
respeak1604
reverb1608
retort1609
reword1609
revoice1610
refract1621
to give back1889
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. Kv Off a hill whose concaue wombe reworded, A plaintfull story from a sistring vale.
1634 J. Bidle tr. Virgil Bucolicks sig. C2 v Not to deafe Hearers We our Airs afford, The Ecco-ringing Woods our Words re-word.
1715 L. Theobald Cave of Poverty 27 Thus Artificial Ecchoes catch the Sound, Re-wording, what we did at distance speak.
1869 W. Davies Songs of Wayfarer 38 On Sicilian slopes, midst olives grey, Warm Acis sang, and the reverberate hills Reworded the sweet music of his lay.
2. transitive. To put (something) into different words; to change the wording of, provide alternative wording for.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > express in phrases [verb (transitive)] > in different phrases
reword1835
rephrase1882
retune1959
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > paraphrase > express in different words [verb (transitive)]
vary1580
paraphrast1583
translate1589
paraphrase1593
rehash1820
reword1892
réchauffer1899
1835 G. W. Johnson Mem. J. Selden i. 12 The petition was reworded, but still the unbroken spirit of Eliot spoke in words that were uncringing.
1882 G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 431 I..had to leave out or reword all passages speaking of God's kingdom as falling.
1892 Proc. Amer. Mission Assoc. 78 The reports..lead me to believe that my subject needs if not to be re-worded, to be defined.
1894 Daily News 1 Sept. 6/2 Titles are re-worded, re-arranged, perhaps curtailed, or expanded.
1936 Language 12 95 Now let us re-word the statement in non-mentalistic terms.
1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating i. 3 ‘Intralingual’ translation..consists essentially in rewording something within the same language.
2004 Mojo June 29/3 Canned Heat..similarly reword Thomas's Bull Doze Blues into the landmark choogle anthem Going Up The Country.
Derivatives
reˈwording n. and adj.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > reverberating or echoing
rebounding1555
rolling1575
repercussive1604
doubling1605
reverberate1608
reparable echo1616
revoicing1631
reverberating1632
rewording1657
re-echoing1668
repeating1685
phonocamptic1694
echoing1702
anacamptic1706
anacamptical1706
reactive1712
rebellowing1712
redoubling1717
repulsive1744
reverberative1807
reverbering1822
reboant1830
echoy1841
reverberant1847
reboantic1853
verberant1864
the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun]
replication?c1400
repetition?a1425
repeatingc1443
renovelling1483
regressiona1500
iteration1530
repeat1556
ingemination1576
iteratinga1593
iterancea1616
redoublinga1665
restatement1790
troll1790
repeatal1822
catching up1847
rewording1849
re-enunciation1855
iterancy1889
1657 T. M. Life Satyrical Puppy 42 Farwell the lowde Trumpet with whose voyce rewording Ecchoes scolde.
1849 E. H. Sears Regeneration (1859) iii. i. 126 The wording and rewording of liturgies is not prayer.
1939 J. W. Campbell Let. 25 Aug. in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 4 This yarn is going to be a headache and a shaker-in-the-boots; it's going to take a lot of careful rewording.
2004 M. Potter Set Theory & its Philos. ix. 158 Proof. This is just a re-wording of Bernstein's equinumerosity theorem.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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