REWORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reword mean? 

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

1. express the same message in different words

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REWORD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reword    ... he / she / it rewords   
Past simple: reworded   
Past participle: reworded   
-ing form: rewording   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express the same message in different words

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

paraphrase; rephrase; reword

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

ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell (to say, state, or perform again)

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

translate (express, as in simple and less technical language)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

rewording (changing a particular word or phrase)