A Word for Being Told Something Over Again Even if U Know the Answer

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verb (used with object)

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 echo 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 once again: to echo an action.

to go through or undergo again: to repeat an experience.

verb (used without object)

to practise or say something over again.

to cause a slight regurgitation: The onions I ate are repeating on me.

to vote illegally by casting more than than i vote in the aforementioned election.

noun

the act of repeating.

something repeated; repetition.

a duplicate or reproduction of something.

a decorative blueprint repeated, usually past printing, on a textile or the similar.

Music.

  1. a passage to be repeated.
  2. a sign, as a vertical arrangement of dots, calling for the repetition of a passage.

a radio or tv programme that has been broadcast at least in one case before.

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Origin of repeat

First recorded in 1325–75; Heart English repeten (verb), from Middle French repeter, from Latin repetere "to set on again, demand return of," equivalent to re-re- + petere "to reach towards, seek" (cf. perpetual, petulant)

synonym study for repeat

i, 5. Echo, restate, reiterate refer to maxim a thing more than than once. To repeat is to practise or say something over once more: to repeat a question, an order. To recapitulate is to restate in brief form, to summarize, oftentimes past repeating the main points in a discourse: to recapitulate an argument. To reiterate is to exercise or say something over and over again, to repeat insistently: to reiterate a refusal, a need.

OTHER WORDS FROM repeat

Words nearby repeat

repast, repatriate, repatriation, repay, repeal, repeat, repeated, repeatedly, repeater, repeating decimal, repeating firearm

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British Dictionary definitions for repeat


verb

(when tr, may have a clause as object) to say or write (something) once more, either once or several times; restate or reiterate

to exercise or experience (something) once more once or several times

(intr) to occur more than once the last effigy repeats

(tr; may take a clause every bit object) to reproduce (the words, sounds, etc) uttered by someone else; repeat

(tr) to utter (a verse form, oral communication, etc) from memory; recite

(intr)

  1. (of food) to be tasted again after ingestion every bit the result of belching or slight regurgitation
  2. to belch

(tr; may accept a clause as object) to tell to another person (the words, esp secrets, imparted to ane by someone else)

(intr) (of a clock) to strike the hour or quarter-hr merely by, when a spring is pressed

(intr) Us to vote (illegally) more than than once in a single election

repeat oneself to say or do the aforementioned thing more in one case, esp so as to exist tedious

noun

  1. the act or an example of repeating
  2. (as modifier) a repeat performance

a word, action, etc, that is repeated

an order made out for appurtenances, provisions, etc, that duplicates a previous club

a duplicate copy of something; reproduction

radio television a farther broadcast of a program, film, etc, which has been broadcast before

music a passage that is an verbal restatement of the passage preceding it

Derived forms of echo

repeatability, noun repeatable, describing word

Word Origin for echo

C14: from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere to seek again, from re- + petere to seek

usage for repeat

Since again is function of the meaning of echo, ane should not say something is repeated again

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