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paraphrase Noun an expression of a statement or text in other words Verb [-phrasing, -phrased] to put (a statement or text) into other words [Greek paraphrazein to recount] paraphrasis, paraphrase the recasting of an idea in words different from that originally used, whether in the same language or in a translation. Cf. metaphrasis, periphrasis. — paraphrastic, paraphrastical, adj. See also: Language
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paraphrase verb 1. reword, interpret, render, restate, rehash, rephrase, express in other words or your own words noun 2. rewording, version, interpretation, rendering, translation, rendition, rehash, restatement, rephrasing Translations |
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In many places this poem is only a paraphrase of the Bible. She said it wouldn't do and she told me to learn the nineteenth paraphrase for next Sunday. As he approached, he heard the noise of the pulleys which grated under the weight of the massy pails; he also fancied he heard the melancholy moaning of the water which falls back again into the wells -- a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the ear of the child and the poet -- both dreamers -- which the English call splash; Arabian poets, gasgachau; and which we Frenchmen, who would be poets, can only translate by a paraphrase -- the noise of water falling into water. |
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