to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of another: to repeat a sentence after the teacher.
to reproduce (utterances, sounds, etc.) in the manner of an echo, a phonograph, or the like.
to tell (something heard) to another or others.
to do, make, or perform again: to repeat an action.
to go through or undergo again: to repeat an experience.
verb (used without object)
to do or say something again.
to cause a slight regurgitation: The onions I ate are repeating on me.
to vote illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.
noun
the act of repeating.
something repeated; repetition.
a duplicate or reproduction of something.
a decorative pattern repeated, usually by printing, on a textile or the like.
Music.
a passage to be repeated.
a sign, as a vertical arrangement of dots, calling for the repetition of a passage.
a radio or television program that has been broadcast at least once before.
Origin of repeat
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English repeten (verb), from Middle French repeter, from Latin repetere “to attack again, demand return of,” equivalent to re-re- + petere “to reach towards, seek” (cf. perpetual, petulant)
SYNONYMS FOR repeat
1 iterate, recite, rehearse.
3 echo, reecho.
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synonym study for repeat
1, 5. Repeat,recapitulate,reiterate refer to saying a thing more than once. To repeat is to do or say something over again: to repeat a question, an order. To recapitulate is to restate in brief form, to summarize, often by repeating the principal points in a discourse: to recapitulate an argument. To reiterate is to do or say something over and over again, to repeat insistently: to reiterate a refusal, a demand.