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Redo vs Rewrite - What's the difference?

redo | rewrite |

As verbs the difference between redo and rewrite

is that redo is to do again while rewrite is to write again, differently (to modify).

As nouns the difference between redo and rewrite

is that redo is a repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc while rewrite is the act of writing again or anew.

redo

English

Verb

  • To do again.

    • Synonyms

    * (to do again) rework

    Antonyms

    * (to do again) undo

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 1, author=C. J. Hughes, title=Where Change Is Underfoot, and Overhead, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Eight years ago, the apartment cost $292,000, and the three redos totaled $48,000, but though he has no plans to sell, he thinks he could get $600,000 for the place today. }}

    Anagrams

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    rewrite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of writing again or anew.
  • Something that has been written again.

    • Verb

  • To write again, differently (to modify).
  • To write again (without changing).

    • Usage notes

    * The verb "restate" has analogous senses "to state again" and "to rephrase, to state again differently".

    Derived terms

    * rewritable