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Definitions in simple English

paraphrase Verb

— If you paraphrase something, you say it again in different words. When paraphrasing books, don't copy everything in it; instead, use your own words.

paraphrase

— noun rewording for the purpose of clarification — verb express the same message in different words

Synonyms paraphrase synonyms

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rephrase translation translate reword retelling paraphrasis version transform transcribe temporize synonym retell restatement repetition reiteration redaction quote paraphrasing narration metaphrase interpret free translation expound explanation explain comment beat

Conjugation paraphrase conjugation

How do you conjugate paraphrase?

paraphrase · verb

Examples paraphrase examples

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Simple sentences

I don't understand this word. Could you paraphrase it?

Movie subtitles

It's what you call a paraphrase.
To paraphrase the venerable adage. we shall kill 2 birds with one pillow.
However, to paraphrase Verlaine, in subtlety lies the essence of things.
Well, if I might paraphrase the poet, sir, I think we should be valiant but not too adventurous.
Can you paraphrase it for us?
Then let me paraphrase one of my own.
Or, to paraphrase Jeff, It's a cruel irony, that while some poor bugger is six feet under, decomposing, you're left very much alive and able to indulge in a good old-fashioned threesome.
I'll paraphrase and give him credit.
Go on, paraphrase.
Don't paraphrase what I said.
So, to paraphrase, you're telling me. the Neptune sheriff's department is a locked-down, squared-away citadel of security?
Those who tell the truth can paraphrase whenever.
To paraphrase the Ancients, they think you won't be able to let go.
It's as if, again, for the male libidinal economy, to paraphrase a well-known old saying, the only good woman is a dead woman.
And today to paraphrase one of your intrepid fellow-countrymen allow me to say that 25 centuries gaze down upon you from this Aphrodite.
To paraphrase a great American leader. surveillance is hell.
So to paraphrase your testimony firing Ms. Stewart was an act of love an incredible gesture of love and commitment to your wife.
Okay, to paraphrase the long and tedious subject that we just discussed, I am a womanizer, okay?
I'll paraphrase Thoreau here.
Well, to paraphrase Mozart, all the subatomic particles are there.
And by the way, don't paraphrase me.
That's not an exact quote, but I think it's a pretty good paraphrase.
To paraphrase your words, I would say that Einar is in no condition to make important decisions.
Is a kind of. Paraphrase threads I already showed you the other day.
I paraphrase.
If I may paraphrase Dorothy Parker, we shouldn't put all our eggs in one bastard.
A little paraphrase.
So, to paraphrase, you rowed back from the afterlife.
Please don't paraphrase me, Adam.
Erm. Perhaps I could paraphrase the last section.

News and current affairs

On all of these points, the concept of war, to paraphrase US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is not helpful.
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, if torture is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
To paraphrase Keynes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
MUNICH - To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never have so many billions of dollars been pumped out by so many governments and central banks.
Happy transitions, to paraphrase Tolstoy, are all alike; but every unhappy transition is unhappy in its own way.
That paraphrase of Oscar Wilde aptly sums up the current state of Japanese politics, given the serial resignations of Prime Ministers Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda.
To paraphrase John F. Kennedy, it is time for Japan's leaders to ask not what their country can do for its government, but what the government can undo for its country.
To paraphrase Lord Acton's dictum: power kills and absolute power kills absolutely.
Every time Hans Blix commented on the UN inspections of Iraq that he was conducting, members of the Bush administration would paraphrase what Blix said.
To paraphrase Marx, a specter is haunting Europe - the specter of chaos.
In their relations with each other, such countries are all from Venus, to paraphrase Robert Kagan, and here Europe's focus on law and institutions is an asset.
The key to progress is to help turn Iran from a cause into a country, to paraphrase Henry Kissinger.
To paraphrase a famous line from Tolstoy, those loyal to their country are faithful in the same way.
The Tunisian and Egyptian people were, to paraphrase Howard Beale, mad as hell at their governments, and they were not going to take it anymore.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, elections are the worst way to select a political leader, save for all other methods that have been tried - and nowhere more so than in America.
Nevertheless, to paraphrase Keynes, every time we turn on the radio or television, read a newspaper, pick up a novel, or watch a movie, we are in the thrall of one or more dead humanists who set the terms of reference through which we see the world.
To paraphrase Hertz, they give back far more than we put in.

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