repeat

Meaning

Verb

1. To do or say again (and again).
2. To refill (a prescription).
3. To happen again; recur.
4. To echo the words of (a person).
5. To strike the hours, as a watch does.
6. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
7. 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.

Concepts

repeat

reiterate

duplicate

do again

double

repetition

recite

restate

say again

retell

again

iterate

recur

recapitulate

rehearse

ingeminate

echo

replicate

reproduce

return

replay

reprise

review

redo

once more

remake

renew

add

reiteration

utter

reprize

reduplicate

take over

chant

rerun

double-cross

renovate

restore

go over

revise

insist firmly

instruct explicitly

order repeatedly

urge

reshowing

redouble

geminate

iteration

exercise

happen again

imitate

cover

retrieval

round

time

double pass

fix

mend

repair

reenact

hammer away at

pound in

recap

bring back

retrace one’s steps

send back

do something over again

answer back

talk back

pile up

heap up

put something on another

refrain

tell again and again

turn down

turn up

be frequent

advance

reaffirm

reassert

run over

emphasize

emphasis

stress

revision

affirm

assert

insist

harp on

nag

iterance

speak

revamp

recreate

recurrence

say after

mention

say over again

patter

say over

report

retail

rpt

quote

relate

raise

repeat over again

evoke

recall

answer

reply

augment

increase

resume

iterative

reiterative

repeater

repetitious

resumptive

duplication

interactive

reduplication

repeating

replication

re

be doubled

enunciate

copy

retake

brush up

ditto

hash over

rehash

retrograde

run

say

cycle

recycle

action replay

make-up

makeup

reappear

resurface

practise

do over again

reply answer

appeal

apply

be

fall

have recourse

occur

resort

run again

turn

change

extend

replace

update

go back

read again

resend

retransmit

recount

tell

recursion

reciprocate

put on

fold up

reoccur

overlap

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈpiːt/

Etymology

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