recount1
verb /rɪˈkaʊnt/
/rɪˈkaʊnt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they recount | /rɪˈkaʊnt/ /rɪˈkaʊnt/ |
| he / she / it recounts | /rɪˈkaʊnts/ /rɪˈkaʊnts/ |
| past simple recounted | /rɪˈkaʊntɪd/ /rɪˈkaʊntɪd/ |
| past participle recounted | /rɪˈkaʊntɪd/ /rɪˈkaʊntɪd/ |
| -ing form recounting | /rɪˈkaʊntɪŋ/ /rɪˈkaʊntɪŋ/ |
- to tell somebody about something, especially something that you have experienced
- recount something (to somebody) She was asked to recount the details of the conversation to the court.
- recount what, how, etc… They recounted what had happened during those years.
- + speech ‘It was before the war,’ he recounted.
Extra Examples- The murders are recounted in gruesome detail.
- The story of his life is vividly recounted in this new book.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRecount is used with these nouns as the object:- anecdote
- ballot
- event
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old Northern French reconter ‘tell again’, based on Old French counter, from the verb computare ‘calculate’, from com- ‘together’ + putare ‘to settle (an account)’.