 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rehearse
verb: engage in a rehearsal (of) [syn: {practise}, {practice}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rehearse \Re*hearse"\, verb (used without an object)
To recite or repeat something for practice. ''There will we
rehearse.'' --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rehearse \Re*hearse"\ (r?*h?rs"), verb (used with an object) [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.
When the words were heard which David spake, they
rehearsed them before Saul. --1 Sam. xvii.
31.
2. To narrate; to relate; to tell.
Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. --Judg. .
v. 11.
3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and
improvement, before a public representation; as, to
rehearse a tragedy.
4. To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [R.]
He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his
having seen her. --Dickens.
Syn: To recite; recapitulate; recount; detail; describe;
tell; relate; narrate.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "rehearse":
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
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