Meaning

(transitive) To do or say again (and again)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
2. (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
3. (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
4. (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
5. (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
6. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
7. (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
8. (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.

Example Sentences

The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.

I'll tell you my secret, but first promise me you won't repeat it to anyone else!

I don't mind talking about the incident, but one gets tired of repeating themself after the hundredth time.

When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

From Berlin and Tokyo and Rome, we have been described as a nation of weaklings- playboys- who would hire British soldiers or Russian soldiers or Chinese soldiers to do our fighting for us. Let them repeat that now. Let them tell that to General McArthur and his men. Let them tell that to the sailors who today are hitting hard in the far waters of the Pacific. Let them tell that to the boys in the Flying Fortresses. Let them tell that to the Marines.

A day like that has not yet repeated itself.

Their rationale with repeating me was that the prior program had not been of sufficient quality to teach me the error of my ways.

He[…] repeats the danger of the burning town.

Word Forms

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Use repeat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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