'Rehearse' definitions:
Definition of 'rehearse'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Rehearse'
From: GCIDE
- Rehearse \Re*hearse"\ (r?*h?rs"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rehearsed (-h?rst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rehearsing.] [OE. rehercen, rehersen, OF. reherser, rehercier, to harrow over again; pref. re- re- + hercier to harrow, fr. herce a harrow, F. herse. See Hearse.]
- 1. To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- When the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul. --1 Sam. xvii. 31. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To narrate; to relate; to tell. [1913 Webster]
- Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. --Judg. . v. 11. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To recite; recapitulate; recount; detail; describe; tell; relate; narrate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rehearse'
From: GCIDE
- Rehearse \Re*hearse"\, v. i. To recite or repeat something for practice. "There will we rehearse." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rehearse'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- add up,
- allegorize,
- announce,
- apprentice,
- battologize,
- break,
- break in,
- break the news,
- breed,
- bring up,
- bring word,
- cast up,
- cipher up,
- condition,
- count up,
- cultivate,
- describe,
- detail,
- develop,
- discipline,
- drill,
- exercise,
- fable,
- fabulize,
- fetch up,
- fictionalize,
- figure up,
- fill,
- fit,
- foot up,
- form,
- foster,
- give a report,
- give an encore,
- give tidings of,
- go over,
- go through,
- groom,
- house-train,
- housebreak,
- improve,
- inform,
- inventory,
- itemize,
- iterate,
- lick into shape,
- mythicize,
- mythify,
- mythologize,
- narrate,
- novelize,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- pad,
- practice,
- prepare,
- put in tune,
- put to school,
- raise,
- ready,
- reaffirm,
- rear,
- reassert,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- recite,
- reckon up,
- recount,
- rehash,
- reissue,
- reiterate,
- relate,
- repeat,
- report,
- reprint,
- restate,
- resume,
- retail,
- retell,
- review,
- reword,
- romance,
- rumor,
- run over,
- run through,
- say over,
- say over again,
- score up,
- send to school,
- state,
- storify,
- study,
- sum,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- summate,
- take in hand,
- tally up,
- tautologize,
- tell,
- tell a story,
- tot up,
- total,
- total up,
- tote up,
- train,
- unfold a tale,
- write up