Other forms: paraphrased, paraphrases, paraphrasing
To paraphrase is to restate someone's words in your own. Paraphrase the argument, to paraphrase him, a rough paraphrase.
In academic writing it still needs a citation — using somebody's idea in your own words without crediting them is plagiarism just as quoting would be, which is the point most often missed. A good paraphrase changes the structure and not only the words. Note that the Greek means a saying alongside.
1verbparaphraseTo restate someone's words in your own.
“Instead of quoting the whole speech, she paraphrased the main points.”
paraphrase is a restating.
Also accepted in games: reword
Greek paraphrasis is para, alongside, plus phrasis, a saying. Phrase and paradox come from the same parts.
Ancient Greek
παράφρασις
Latin
paraphrasis
Middle French
paraphrase
English, today
paraphrase
From Middle French paraphrase, from Latin paraphrasis, from Ancient Greek παράφρασις, equivalent to para- + phrase. a doublet of paraphrasis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA