rewrite history
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Verb edit
rewrite history (third-person singular simple present rewrites history, present participle rewriting history, simple past and past participle rewrited history)
- To give a changed (usually false) account of what has happened in the past.
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Further reading edit
- “rewrite history”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “rewrite history”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “rewrite history” (US) / “rewrite history” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.