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
• 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
• reeling off
• tabulating
• calculating
• inventorying
• estimating
• citing
• tallying
• computing
• charting
• graphing
• naming
• diagramming
• reckoning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• generalizing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rehearsing

The force of Quincy’s essay resided not in rehearsing this full litany of offenses for The Atlantic’s readers but in delineating its implications. —Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026

Guerrero flew to San Francisco on Tuesday to begin rehearsing his spot in the show. —Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026

Dalia Rawson, now the executive director of New Ballet in San Jose, spent decades training and refining her craft as a ballet dancer, and says that after rehearsing for weeks on end with the other members of her company, something special happened. —Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026

Premeditate Challenges, But Don’t Fear Them Stoics practiced premeditatio malorum, mentally rehearsing potential setbacks so they aren’t caught off guard. —Andrew Rosen, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026

Planning for the intervention reportedly began as early as August last year, with military officials rehearsing how to conduct the operation. —Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 8 Jan. 2026

The actors expected to spend hours fine-tuning their performances and rehearsing key scenes. —Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026

The actress has had a busy 2024 and 2025 between promoting the two-part Wicked adaptation, appearing in the show Poker Face, her June album release, performances at Coachella and rehearsing for her upcoming one woman stage production of Dracula. —Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025

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