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Repeat

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.

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Broader term 11

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Emit 76% connected

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits s…

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Hap 76% connected

To clothe; to wrap.

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Happen 76% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Occur 76% connected

To meet; to clash.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Reproduce 76% connected

To produce again.

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Utter 76% connected

Outer.

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Manner of action 25

Cite 76% connected

To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.

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Copy 76% connected

An abundance or plenty of anything.

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Cuckoo 76% connected

A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.

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Cycle 76% connected

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

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Ditto 76% connected

The aforesaid thing; the same (as before). Often contracted to do., or to two "turned commas" ("), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, t…

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Dwell 76% connected

To delay; to linger.

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Geminate 76% connected

In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers.

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Harp 76% connected

A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

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Interpret 76% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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Iterate 76% connected

Uttered or done again; repeated.

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Paraphrase 76% connected

A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller e…

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Parrot 76% connected

In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.

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Quote 76% connected

To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as,…

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Recapitulate 76% connected

To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate i…

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Recite 76% connected

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from reco…

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Reduplicate 76% connected

Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

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Reecho 76% connected

To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon.

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Regurgitate 76% connected

To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Replicate 76% connected

To reply.

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Reproduce 76% connected

To produce again.

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Resume 76% connected

A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.

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Reword 76% connected

To repeat in the same words; to reecho.

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Summarize 76% connected

To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.

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Translate 76% connected

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

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Narrower term 4

Cycle 76% connected

An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

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Recurrence 76% connected

Alt. of Recurrency

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Return 76% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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Sequence 76% connected

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

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Derivationally related 16

Echo 74% connected

A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

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Echo 74% connected

A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

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Iterate 74% connected

Uttered or done again; repeated.

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Iterate 74% connected

Uttered or done again; repeated.

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Repeater 74% connected

One who, or that which, repeats.

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Repeater 74% connected

One who, or that which, repeats.

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Repetition 74% connected

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

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Repetition 74% connected

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

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Repetitious 74% connected

Repeating; containing repetition.

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Repetitious 74% connected

Repeating; containing repetition.

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Repetitive 74% connected

Containing repetition; repeating.

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Repetitive 74% connected

Containing repetition; repeating.

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Reprize 74% connected

See Reprise.

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Reprize 74% connected

See Reprise.

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Synonym 15

Double 92% connected

Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.

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Duplicate 92% connected

Double; twofold.

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Echo 92% connected

A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

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Ingeminate 92% connected

Redoubled; repeated.

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Iterate 92% connected

Uttered or done again; repeated.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recapitulate 92% connected

To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate i…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recur 92% connected

To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.

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Reduplicate 92% connected

Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

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Reiterate 92% connected

To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat.

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Repetition 92% connected

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Replicate 92% connected

To reply.

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Reprise 92% connected

A taking by way of retaliation.

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Reprize 92% connected

See Reprise.

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Restate 92% connected

To state anew.

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Retell 92% connected

To tell again.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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