Repeat

Quick meaning: Repeat is a verb meaning (transitive) To do or say again (and again).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
2. (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
3. (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
4. (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
5. (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
6. (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.
7. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.

Example Sentences

A day like that has not yet repeated itself.

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

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!

Word Forms

• repeats
• repeating
• repeated
• repeatest
• repeatedst
• repeateth

Synonyms for repeat

Depending on context, synonyms include reiterate, reprise, reoccur, recrudesce, recourse, recur.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include restate, reiterate, ingeminate, reprise, repetition, retell.

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