repen

R1E1P3E1N1

verb

To rewrite.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

verbrepen (third-person singular simple present repens, present participle repenning, simple past and past participle repenned)

present singular third person repens · participle present repenning · participle past repenned · past repenned · alternative re-pen

  1. transitiveTo rewrite.

    […] for this talented and unscrupulous cheat played double as before, accepting the hush-money, and then going to press, once, twice, thrice, and yet again, with her memoirs, penned and repenned in perpetually new and more fabulous forms.

    1933, Stefan Zweig, translated by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, London: Cassell and Company, page 197

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Chicago

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