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3 definitions found
for retell
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Retell \Re*tell\, v. t.
To tell again.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
retell
v 1: render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story" [syn:
recite, retell]
2: make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his
parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalize,
fictionalise, retell]
3: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her
request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate,
iterate, restate, retell]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "retell":
allegorize, battologize, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, fill,
give an encore, go over, go through, iterate, mythicize, mythify,
mythologize, narrate, novelize, pad, practice, reaffirm, reassert,
recapitulate, recite, recount, rehash, rehearse, reissue,
reiterate, relate, report, reprint, restate, resume, retail,
review, reword, romance, run over, say over, say over again,
storify, sum up, summarize, tautologize, tell, tell a story,
unfold a tale
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