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rehearse verb [ rɪˈhəːs ]

• practise (a play, piece of music, or other work) for later public performance.
• "we were rehearsing a radio play"
Similar: prepare, practise, try out, read through, sing through, walk through, run through/over, go over, run down, have a practice session, have a trial performance, go through one's paces,
• state (a list of points that have been made many times before).
• "criticisms of factory farming have been rehearsed often enough"
Similar: enumerate, list, itemize, detail, spell out, set out, present, specify, name, give, describe, delineate, catalogue, recite, rattle off, restate, repeat, reiterate, recapitulate, recount, go over, run through, review, recap,
Origin: Middle English (in the sense ‘repeat aloud’): from Old French rehercier, perhaps from re- ‘again’ + hercer ‘to harrow’, from herse ‘harrow’ (see hearse).


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