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RESTATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

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 "restate" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

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

perseverate (psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus)

ditto (repeat an action or statement)

dwell; harp (come back to)

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:

restatement (a revised statement)

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