Rehearse
[rɪ'hɜːs] or [rɪ'hɝs]
Definition
(v. t.) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
(v. t.) To narrate; to relate; to tell.
(v. t.) To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.
(v. t.) To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
(v. i.) To recite or repeat something for practice.
Editor: Philip
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Repeat, recite.[2]. Narrate, relate, recount, describe, tell, portray, delineate, depict, set forth, give an account of.
Typist: Marietta
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Repeat, recite, narrate, recount, relate, tell, recapitulate, recount, detail
ANT:Misrepent, misrecite, misrecount, misrelate, misrepresent, misdetail
Inputed by Erma
Examples
- We ought to rehearse tonight. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They must now rehearse together. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- They now arouse a new meaning by inciting the one who hears or reads to rehearse imaginatively the activities in which the helmet has its use. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They could not act, they could not rehearse with any satisfaction without her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I came to rehearse. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Who shall rehearse the tale of their after-union? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You must rehearse it with me, that I may fancy _you_ him, and get on by degrees. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The heralds then proclaimed silence until the laws of the tourney should be rehearsed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The last three stanzas she rehearsed well. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mike, like a wise Daniel as he is, not only rehearsed the vision but gave the interpretation thereof. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The play was hastily rehearsed, whereupon the other mummers were delighted with the new knight. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It rehearsed a number of fundamental rights that made England a legal and not a regal state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She did not _believe_ they had yet rehearsed it, even in private. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- When this social aim is overlooked, however, the study of primitive life becomes simply a rehearsing of sensational and exciting features of savagery. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If I must say what I think, continued Mr. Rushworth, in my opinion it is very disagreeable to be always rehearsing. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The scene we were rehearsing was so very remarkable! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Did you hear all the advantages of the unjust which Thrasymachus was rehearsing? Plato. The Republic.
- Third, that Penelope had heard them rehearsing their hocus-pocus, like actors rehearsing a play. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Could Sir Thomas look in upon us just now, he would bless himself, for we are rehearsing all over the house. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Checker: Shari