re·peat 
(r
-p
t
rpt
) See the pronunciation key
VERB:
re·peat·ed, re·peat·ing, re·peats
VERB:
tr.
intr.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, to seek again : re-, re- + petere, to seek; see pet- in Indo-European roots
OTHER FORMS:
re·peata·bili·ty(Noun), re·peata·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.
(r
-pt rpt) See the pronunciation key VERB:
re·peat·ed, re·peat·ing, re·peats
VERB:
tr.
- 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.
intr.
- To do or say something again.
- To commit the fraudulent offense of voting more than once in a single election.
- 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.
- Of, relating to, or being something that repeats or is repeated: a repeat offender; a repeat performance of the play.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, to seek again : re-, re- + petere, to seek; see pet- in Indo-European roots
OTHER FORMS:
re·peat
a·bili·ty(Noun), re·peata·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.
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