re·peat
(rĭ-pēt́ rḗpēt́)
[Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, to seek again, re-, re-, + petere, to seek.]
verb: -peat·ed, -peat·ing, -peats.
transitive verb
- To say again: repeat a question.
- To utter in duplication of another's utterance.
- To recite from memory.
- To tell to another.
- To do, experience, or produce again: repeat past successes.
- To express (oneself) in the same way or words: repeats himself constantly.
intransitive verb
- To do or say something again.
- To commit the fraudulent offense of voting more than once in a single election.
noun
- An act of repeating.
- Something repeated, as an interval in athletic training.
- A broadcast of a television or radio program that has been previously broadcast; a rerun.
- Music
- A passage or section that is repeated.
- A sign usually consisting of two vertical dots, indicating a passage to be repeated.
adjective
- Of, relating to, or being something that repeats or is repeated: a repeat offender; a repeat performance of the play.
derivatives
- re·peat́a·biĺi·ty
- noun
- re·peat́a·ble
- adjective
synonyms:
repeat, iterate, reiterate, restate These verbs mean to state again: repeated the warning; iterate a demand; reiterated the question; restated the obvious.
