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RECITE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Repeat aloud from memory

Example:

The pupil recited his lesson for the day

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):

echo; repeat (to say again or imitate)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recite"):

spell; spell out (orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of)

say (recite or repeat a fixed text)

rattle down; rattle off; reel off; roll off; spiel off (recite volubly or extravagantly)

count (name or recite the numbers in ascending order)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recitation (written matter that is recited from memory)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Specify individually

Example:

The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug

Synonyms:

enumerate; itemise; itemize; recite

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):

identify; name (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recite"):

list; name (give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Narrate or give a detailed account of

Example:

The father told a story to his child

Synonyms:

narrate; recite; recount; tell

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recite"):

relate (give an account of)

crack (tell spontaneously)

yarn (tell or spin a yarn)

rhapsodise; rhapsodize (recite a rhapsody)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence example:

The parents recite a French poem to the children

Derivation:

recital (the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events)

recital (a detailed account or description of something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Recite in elocution

Synonyms:

declaim; recite

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):

do; execute; perform (carry out or perform an action)

"Recite" entails doing...:

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recite"):

elocute (declaim in an elocutionary manner)

perorate (deliver an oration in grandiloquent style)

scan (read metrically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recitation (a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Render verbally

Example:

retell a story

Synonyms:

recite; retell

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "recite" is one way to...):

re-create (create anew)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recital; recitation (a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance)

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