re|hearse

re|hearse
re|hearse «rih HURS», verb, -hearsed, -hears|ing.
–v.t.
1. to practice (a play, part, music, or reading) for a public performance: »

We rehearsed our parts for the school play.

2. to drill or train (as a person or group) by repetition.
3. to tell in detail; repeat: »

The children rehearsed all the happenings of the day to their father in the evening.

4. to tell one by one; enumerate: »

An act of the English parliament rehearsed the dangers to be apprehended (George Bancroft).

SYNONYM(S): relate, recount.
–v.i.
to recite; rehearse a play, part, music, or reading.
[< Anglo-French rehearser, Old French rehercier, and reherser to rake over < re- again + hercier to rake, harrow < herce, or herse a harrow, rake < Latin hirpex, -icis]
re|hears´er, noun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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