A Word for Saying Something Again/twice

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verb (used with object)

to say or utter again (something already said): to echo a word for accent.

to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of another: to repeat a sentence after the teacher.

to reproduce (utterances, sounds, etc.) in the style of an echo, a phonograph, or the similar.

to tell (something heard) to another or others.

to practice, make, or perform again: to echo an action.

to go through or undergo again: to echo an experience.

verb (used without object)

to do or say something again.

to cause a slight regurgitation: The onions I ate are repeating on me.

to vote illegally past casting more than 1 vote in the same election.

noun

the act of repeating.

something repeated; repetition.

a indistinguishable or reproduction of something.

a decorative pattern repeated, unremarkably by printing, on a textile or the like.

Music.

  1. a passage to be repeated.
  2. a sign, every bit a vertical arrangement of dots, calling for the repetition of a passage.

a radio or television program that has been broadcast at least in one case before.

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Origin of repeat

Commencement recorded in 1325–75; Middle English repeten (verb), from Middle French repeter, from Latin repetere "to attack again, demand return of," equivalent to re-re- + petere "to reach towards, seek" (cf. perpetual, petulant)

synonym report for echo

1, 5. Repeat, recapitulate, reiterate refer to saying a thing more than once. To repeat is to do or say something once again: to repeat a question, an order. To recapitulate is to recapitulate in brief course, to summarize, often by repeating the principal points in a soapbox: to restate an argument. To reiterate is to do or say something over and over again, to repeat insistently: to reiterate a refusal, a demand.

OTHER WORDS FROM repeat

Words nearby repeat

repast, repatriate, repatriation, repay, repeal, echo, repeated, repeatedly, repeater, repeating decimal, repeating firearm

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How to utilize repeat in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for repeat


verb

(when tr, may take a clause as object) to say or write (something) again, either one time or several times; recapitulate or reiterate

to do or experience (something) once more once or several times

(intr) to occur more than one time the last figure repeats

(tr; may accept a clause every bit object) to reproduce (the words, sounds, etc) uttered by someone else; echo

(tr) to utter (a poem, speech, etc) from memory; recite

(intr)

  1. (of food) to be tasted over again after ingestion as the result of belching or slight regurgitation
  2. to belch

(tr; may take a clause as object) to tell to another person (the words, esp secrets, imparted to one past someone else)

(intr) (of a clock) to strike the hr or quarter-hr just past, when a spring is pressed

(intr) US to vote (illegally) more than one time in a single election

echo oneself to say or practice the same matter more than than once, esp so as to be tedious

noun

  1. the act or an instance of repeating
  2. (as modifier) a repeat performance

a give-and-take, action, etc, that is repeated

an order made out for goods, provisions, etc, that duplicates a previous social club

a duplicate copy of something; reproduction

radio tv set a further broadcast of a programme, film, etc, which has been circulate before

music a passage that is an verbal restatement of the passage preceding it

Derived forms of repeat

repeatability, noun repeatable, adjective

Word Origin for repeat

C14: from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere to seek over again, from re- + petere to seek

usage for repeat

Since again is part of the meaning of echo, one should non say something is repeated again

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