repeat

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
2. (transitive) To refill (a prescription).
3. (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
4. (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
5. (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
6. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
7. (Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
8. To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
9. To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.

Noun

1. An iteration; a repetition.
2. A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
3. A refill of a prescription.
4. A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
5. A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.

Synonyms

reiterate

duplicate

do again

double

repetition

recite

restate

say again

retell

again

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iterate

recur

rehearse

ingeminate

echo

recapitulate

replicate

reproduce

return

replay

reprise

review

redo

once more

chant

take over

utter

add

renew

rerun

reprize

reiteration

reduplicate

remake

insist firmly

instruct explicitly

exercise

happen again

order repeatedly

urge

restore

revise

reshowing

iteration

double-cross

renovate

imitate

redouble

go over

geminate

Translations

répéter

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repetir

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ripetere

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wiederholen

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herhalen

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repetir

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redire

επαναλαμβάνω

refaire

reiterar

repetir

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reprendre

Wiederholung

nazeggen

réitérer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈpiːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: repeten

In summary

From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, repetere, from the prefix re- (“again”) + peto (“attack, beseech”).