Synonyms of rehearsing

rehearsing

verb

present participle of rehearse

1

as in practicing

to do over and over so as to become skilled

the orchestra rehearsed the symphony until they finally got it to the conductor's satisfaction

Synonyms & Similar Words

• practicing
• practising
• exercising
• repeating
• running over
• refining
• drilling
• studying
• perfecting
• reviewing
• preparing (for)
• working (at or on)
• training (with)
• pointing (for)
• grooving

2

as in describing

to give an oral or written account of in some detail

wrote a letter to the management rehearsing in lurid detail our terrible stay at their hotel

Synonyms & Similar Words

• describing
• telling
• recounting
• narrating
• relating
• chronicling
• reporting
• reciting
• setting forth
• charting
• voicing
• depicting
• detailing
• stating
• uttering
• disclosing
• revealing
• expressing
• delivering
• enumerating
• exposing
• sketching
• giving
• rendering
• itemizing
• divulging
• baring
• reeling off
• particularizing
• delineating
• letting on (about)

3

as in repeating

to say or state again

rehearsed her story about why she was late as she walked into the meeting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• repeating
• reiterating
• iterating
• coming again
• dinning
• chiming
• summarizing
• echoing
• paraphrasing
• rewording
• outlining
• mouthing
• recapitulating
• recapping
• parroting
• encapsulating
• summing up
• abstracting
• reechoing
• epitomizing

4

as in reciting

to specify one after another

rehearsed the list of things he wanted for his birthday so that there would be no doubt in my mind

Synonyms & Similar Words

• reciting
• listing
• outlining
• detailing
• itemizing
• enumerating
• ticking (off)
• mentioning
• numerating
• cataloging
• figuring
• cataloguing
• reeling off
• tabulating
• calculating
• inventorying
• citing
• estimating
• tallying
• computing
• charting
• graphing
• diagraming
• naming
• diagramming
• reckoning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• generalizing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rehearsing

When one father admitted over the phone that his son had cried while rehearsing for an audition, his wife pointedly cleared her throat. —Lauren Hilgers, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025

The simulation involved two full teams of flight controllers, the Sierra Space team in Colorado and the NASA team in Houston, rehearsing the final two hours of the Dream Chaser's approach to the ISS. —Leonard David, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025

The resulting look can resemble outfits worn by K-pop stars rehearsing dance routines, or the layers may echo those worn in modern and contemporary dance studios across New York City. —Misty White Sidell, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025

These performers spend their whole lives training, auditioning, being rejected, rehearsing and performing for us. —Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2024

Cory has also taken a leadership role founding, recruiting, and rehearsing a Lows Ensemble, and leading this years Woodwind Quintet. —Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024

The actor and singer, 56, is full steam ahead on rehearsing for his upcoming 2025 Radio City Music Hall concert series, and shared a few glimpses of his process with his Instagram followers. —Jen Juneau, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024

For example, athletes often visualize winning a race, rehearsing every detail mentally. —Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024

Moments before Monday’s mass shooting, a group of medics from the police department were at a training center 3 miles away from the school rehearsing what to do during a mass trauma incident. —Karina Tsui, Holly Yan and Nicole Chavez, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024