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REITERATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they reiterate ... he / she / it reiterates
Past simple: reiterated
Past participle: reiterated
-ing form: reiterating
Sense 1
Meaning:
To say, state, or perform again
Example:
She kept reiterating her request
Synonyms:
ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "reiterate" is one way to...):
tell (let something be known)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reiterate"):
perseverate (psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus)
ditto (repeat an action or statement)
interpret; render; translate (restate (words) from one language into another language)
paraphrase; rephrase; reword (express the same message in different words)
resume; sum up; summarise; summarize (give a summary (of))
cite; quote (repeat a passage from)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Derivation:
reiteration (the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof))
reiterative (marked by iteration)
Context examples:
The matrons, meantime, offered vinaigrettes and wielded fans; and again and again reiterated the expression of their concern that their warning had not been taken in time; and the elder gentlemen laughed, and the younger urged their services on the agitated fair ones.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The head of my bed was near the door, and I thought at first the goblin-laugher stood at my bedside—or rather, crouched by my pillow: but I rose, looked round, and could see nothing; while, as I still gazed, the unnatural sound was reiterated: and I knew it came from behind the panels.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mason!—the West Indies! he said, in the tone one might fancy a speaking automaton to enounce its single words; Mason!—the West Indies! he reiterated; and he went over the syllables three times, growing, in the intervals of speaking, whiter than ashes: he hardly seemed to know what he was doing.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
