Other forms: rephrased, rephrasing
To rephrase is to say the same thing in different words. Let me rephrase that, rephrase the question, rephrased for clarity.
Let me rephrase that is what people say when the first attempt landed badly, and it usually means a retreat rather than a clarification. In teaching, rephrasing a question is the standard way of finding out whether the difficulty was the wording.
1verbrephraseTo say the same thing in different words.
“I didn't understand the question, so the teacher rephrased it more simply.”
rephrase is a restating.
Ancient Greek
φράσις — manner of expression
Latin
phrasis — diction
English
phrase
English, today
rephrase
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From re- + phrase. phrase Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (“manner of expression”), from φράζω (“to tell, express”).
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