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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rehearse
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rehearse a play (=practise it)
▪ We spent weeks rehearsing the play.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
well
▪ Discussions of the Oregon experiment were repeated, although this debate has already been well rehearsed.
▪ Miguel lit a cigarette with a suave mannerism that had been well rehearsed.
▪ By this time, all the arguments had been well rehearsed in both Houses.
▪ The 50-year-old incumbent and the 72-year-old challenger appeared equally relaxed, forceful and well rehearsed.
▪ The arguments have been well rehearsed over the last year.
■ NOUN
argument
▪ She rehearses the outlines of arguments efficiently and is not frightened of forcing students to grapple with tough material.
▪ This carefully-worded document rehearsed the arguments for making the joint award, while carefully avoiding any admission of the original mistake.
scene
▪ They rehearsed the scene in the morning.
▪ They were rehearsed and filmed like scenes with dialogue.
time
▪ To help this, she has insisted they be given more time to rehearse.
▪ Anticipate the problems your client may have with self-monitoring ahead of time, and rehearse strategies to deal with those situations.
▪ We decided eventually that the time had come to rehearse this seriously and he was very happy about it.
▪ It gave him time to rehearse his little speech.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He is currently in New York rehearsing for "The Taming of the Shrew."
▪ Norm spent the night before rehearsing what he'd say to the senator.
▪ The band has been rehearsing at the studio all day.
▪ The director made us rehearse the opening scenes over and over.
▪ They rehearsed the scene in her dressing room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Already he was beginning to get roles in the ballets by Dulcie Howes which were being rehearsed.
▪ The arguments for and against capping offered in response to this question tended merely to rehearse those already discussed.
▪ The camera positions are rehearsed from time to time to present the on-set talent in the best possible light.
▪ The company rehearsed Thursdays and Fridays for two shows daily except Tuesdays.
▪ They kept a low profile in Liverpool's Amazon Studio, rehearsing and working on new material.
▪ To help this, she has insisted they be given more time to rehearse.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rehearse

Rehearse \Re*hearse"\, v. i. To recite or repeat something for practice. ``There will we rehearse.''
--Shak.

Rehearse

Rehearse \Re*hearse"\ (r?*h?rs"), v. t. [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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rehearse

c.1300, "to give an account of," from Anglo-French rehearser, Old French rehercier (12c.) "to go over again, repeat," literally "to rake over, turn over" (soil, ground), from re- "again" (see re-) + hercier "to drag, trail (on the ground), be dragged along the ground; rake, harrow (land); rip, tear, wound; repeat, rehearse;" from herse "a harrow" (see hearse (n.)). Meaning "to say over again, repeat what has already been said or written" is from mid-14c. in English; sense of "practice a play, part, etc." is from 1570s. Related: Rehearsed; rehearsing.

Wiktionary
rehearse

vb. 1 To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite. 2 To narrate; to relate; to tell. 3 To practice by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation; as, ''to rehearse a tragedy''. 4 To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.

WordNet
rehearse

v. engage in a rehearsal (of) [syn: practise, practice]

Usage examples of "rehearse".

The following Wednesday there was a long meeting in which George outlined his conditions for staying in the Beatles: no more filming at Twickenham, no concert in Tripoli, no television show, and the songs they had rehearsed to be used in a new album to be recorded at the studio that Magic Alex was building for them in the basement of Apple.

Aurelius his tale anon began, And told him all as ye have heard before, It needeth not to you rehearse it more.

CHAPTER III--A DIRGIE In the course of the summer following the baptism, of which I have rehearsed the particulars in the foregoing chapter, Bailie Mucklehose happened to die, and as he was a man long and well respected, he had a great funeral.

This confrontation with the policeman, for which Berel rehearsed for a week, has come and gone like a quick bad joke.

Suitably rehearsed, the groups converge in Donnybrook, most opting for the forecourt of the Shell garage and the surrounding premises to join up with each other.

He rehearsed the history of physical intimidation during 1789, which made it evident that all his professions of devotion to the people of Paris had only been made under duress and the need to safeguard the lives of his family.

He wondered if Bardo was in his sanctum now, perhaps rehearsing a sermon for the ceremony, perhaps swiving some bright-eyed godling whom he was personally instructing in the delights of submitting to the Way.

Hiraga shouted and, again as one man, the maneuver rehearsed many times, Akimoto and the remaining four broke off their duels and charged back through the damaged main gate, Hiraga last--the badly wounded youth, Jozan, hobbling after them.

The movements started by the medieval mystics and still more by the heretics Wyclif and Huss, rehearsed the religious drama of the sixteenth century.

Never any trouble As Andropov rehearsed the innocuousness of the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, the confidence that the KGB had been rightly and unavoidably fooled became the hollow laughter of the hoaxer.

For a whole fortnight, from early morning till seven in the evening, rain or shine, they had sat in Kew Gardens and rehearsed the ways of Latchetts and Clare, the histories of Ashbys and Ledinghams, the lie of a land he had never seen.

The subjects of dyspepsia frequently imagine that they require medicines to act upon the liver, desire active treatment, are endlessly experimenting in diet, daily rehearse their symptoms, and are morbidly sensitive.

Far away, beneath the immense painted and mosaicked dome, a choir was rehearsing.

As though rehearsed, the three victors turned and faced the box where sat Nummer Ein and his group.

Mack continued, pretending to sort through the cobwebs of his mind for the correct point of departure, not only fully aware of exactly where he had left off but of the precise order and nuance of each word he was about to utter - written, rewritten, rehearsed, and performed for hours on end each night for the past month before the cracked mirror in his cheap roach-ridden flat on West 103rd Street.