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by flukus 3247 days ago
I checked a few (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rewrite) they all seem to indicate that it's writing something again. Some included revise as a synonym, but the parent said "complete rewrite" which would exclude that. Otherwise where is the cut off line? Can I rewrite 1% and call something a rewrite?

I never knew the definition of rewrite would be so controversial.

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Write something down, cross it out, (re)write the same thing again

What you wrote is the same but will be a little different