rewritten

UK/ɹiːˈɹɪt.ən/US/ɹiˈɹɪt.ən/

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,078 of 15,258leans written

Rewritten means written out again in a changed form. Heavily rewritten, a rewritten draft, the rules were rewritten.

It is the past participle of rewrite, and rules described as rewritten are what anybody says of a change to how something is done. In writing it is the whole craft, since almost nothing worth reading was written once.

Definitions of rewritten

1adjectiverewrittenWritten out again in a changed form.B2+
“The rewritten version of the song was slower and sadder than the original.”

rewritten is a state.

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rewritten in the wild

Johnson's book was subsequently rewritten in modern English by W.
Seven Champions of Christendom
One of the Reggie Pepper stories in this collection was later rewritten as a Jeeves story, which was also included in Carry On, Jeeves.
My Man Jeeves
The book is an adaptation of the 1943 Rose Wilder Lane book The Discovery of Freedom, rewritten by Weaver.
The Mainspring of Human Progress
In April 2011, Dancer was rewritten from scratch and released as Dancer2.
Dancer (software)
Although that demo is no longer available to the public online, a second version rewritten in HTML5 is now available and open source.
ChronoZoom

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