REHEARSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rehearse mean? 

• REHEARSE (verb)
  The verb REHEARSE has 1 sense:

1. engage in a rehearsal (of)

  Familiarity information: REHEARSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REHEARSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rehearse    ... he / she / it rehearses   
Past simple: rehearsed   
Past participle: rehearsed   
-ing form: rehearsing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage in a rehearsal (of)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

practice; practise; rehearse

Hypernyms (to "rehearse" is one way to...):

do; execute; perform (carry out or perform an action)

Domain category:

performing arts (arts or skills that require public performance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rehearse"):

walk through (perform in a perfunctory way, as for a first rehearsal)

scrimmage (practice playing (a sport))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They will rehearse the duet

Derivation:

rehearsal (a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert))

 Context examples 

You must rehearse it with me, that I may fancy you him, and get on by degrees.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You are the best actress we've got, and there'll be an end of everything if you quit the boards, said Jo. We ought to rehearse tonight.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She went so far as to imagine Martin proposing, herself putting the words into his mouth; and she rehearsed her refusal, tempering it with kindness and exhorting him to true and noble manhood.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They could not act, they could not rehearse with any satisfaction without her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Meg rose as she spoke, and was just going to rehearse the dignified exit, when a step in the hall made her fly into her seat and begin to sew as fast as if her life depended on finishing that particular seam in a given time.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If I must say what I think, continued Mr. Rushworth, in my opinion it is very disagreeable to be always rehearsing.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The scene we were rehearsing was so very remarkable!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I have brought my book, and if you would but rehearse it with me, I should be so obliged!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Could Sir Thomas look in upon us just now, he would bless himself, for we are rehearsing all over the house.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I believe,” said Fanny to her aunt Bertram, “there will be three acts rehearsed to-morrow evening, and that will give you an opportunity of seeing all the actors at once.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)