rewrite history

English

Verb

rewrite history (third-person singular simple present rewrites history, present participle rewriting history, simple past and past participle rewrited history)

1. To give a changed (usually false) account of what has happened in the past.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: kirjoittaa historiaa uudelleen
• French: réécrire l’histoire
• Hungarian: újraírja a történelmet
• Polish: zmieniać historię impf, zmienić historię pf
• Spanish reescribir la historia

See also

• make history

Further reading

• “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.