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RETELL
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Irregular inflected form: retold
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they retell
... he / she / it retells
Past simple: retold
-ing form: retelling
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 "retell" is one way to...):
tell (let something be known)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "retell"):
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
Sentence example:
They won't retell the story
Sense 2
Meaning:
Example:
The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel
Synonyms:
fictionalise; fictionalize; retell
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "retell" is one way to...):
re-create (create anew)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Example:
retell a story
Synonyms:
recite; retell
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "retell" is one way to...):
re-create (create anew)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something