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paraphrase

verb/ˈpærəfreɪz/

B1CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

To restate what someone has said using different words to check you have understood correctly.

If I can paraphrase what you've told me, the headaches are worst in the morning and ease by lunchtime.

Similar: reword

Topic: Patient-facing communication in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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