retell

re·tell

 (rē-tĕl′)

tr.v. re·told (-tōld′), re·tell·ing, re·tells

1. To relate or tell again or in a different form.

2. To count again.

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retell

(riːˈtɛl)

vb (tr) , -tells, -telling or -told

to relate (a story, etc) again or differently

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retell

Past participle: retold
Gerund: retelling

Imperative

retell

retell

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Thesaurus

Verb	1.	retell - render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story" recite re-create - create anew; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale"
	2.	retell - make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel" fictionalise, fictionalize re-create - create anew; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale"
	3.	retell - to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate tell - let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late" perseverate - psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus; "The subjects in this study perseverated" ditto - repeat an action or statement; "The next speaker dittoed her argument" harp, dwell - come back to; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things" translate, interpret, render - restate (words) from one language into another language; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N." paraphrase, rephrase, reword - express the same message in different words sum up, summarize, summarise, resume - give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize" quote, cite - repeat a passage from; "He quoted the Bible to her"

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Translations

ripetere

retell

[ˈriːˈtel] (retold (pt, pp)) VT → volver a contar

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retell

[ˌriːˈtɛl] vt [+ story, tale] (= repeat) → raconter à nouveau; (in a new form) → adapter

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retell

pret, ptp <retold>

vt → wiederholen; (novelist) old legend → nacherzählen

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