Толковый словарь английского языка - rewrite

I. verb (rewrote; rewritten; rewriting) Date: 1567 transitive verb to write in reply, to make a revision of (as a story) ; cause to be revised: as, to put (contributed material) into form for publication, to alter (previously published material) for use in another publication, intransitive verb to revise something previously written, ~r noun II. noun Date: 1914 a piece of writing (as a news story) constructed by rewriting, an act or instance of rewriting