to rehearse
- verb
- /rɪˈhɜrs/
- The cast will rehearse the play every evening before the opening night.
- rehearse and perform
- rehearse a piece
- rehearse the music
These people rehearsed a dance for us.
- These people rehearsed a dance for us.
- And the location that we were rehearsing in didn't have AC.
- He's on his feet rehearsing like full Paddy.
- They'll take the time and they'll mentally rehearse the the the action.
- And when your mind rehearses something, here's what's cool about your brain.
- The first time we rehearsed, it already sounded fantastic.
- We're like and we're trying to rehearse still.
- And I guess we could have rehearsed a little before.
- So we got Sir and we start rehearsing.
- You have to really begin to mentally rehearse.
Examples
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Mr. O always lets us rehearse here.
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We need them to rehearse!
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I need someone to rehearse with until he gets better.
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Okay, I should probably rehearse this.
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Do you have to rehearse this early in the morning?
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We'll come back to rehearse later.
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We can rehearse in private if you like.
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The morning groups combine to rehearse for their performance, and the afternoon groups do the same.
Academic text (1999) -
When students get together to rehearse, they learn to cooperate in the context of a forthcoming concert.
Academic text (2001) -
Before modeling, the models may need to discuss and rehearse what they're going to say to make it clear.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
To do something again and again to become better at it
Practice a song or scene again to make it better before a show
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Rehearse has the prefix re- meaning 'again' and comes from an old root that meant 'to tell or go over', like in repeat. So to rehearse is to go over a play, speech, or piece of music 'again' to get it ready for performance.